Academic and professional impact of university physical education program

Abstract

This article aimed to measure the academic and professional impact of the bachelor’s degree in physical education at the Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO University Corporation headquarters. For this, the test of Evaluation of the academic impact in higher education programs was applied, prepared by Gómez, Quiroz & Zambrano (2016) composed of 3 variables and 32 items. The sample was applied to 150 eighth and ninth semester students and the methodology is quantitative, not experimental, and descriptive in scope. The SPSS software was used for the study, the statistical analysis was carried out with descriptive statistics techniques and the variables analyzed were: group I: learning, group II: personal satisfaction, group III: professional performance. The main findings reflect that learning, personal satisfaction and professional performance yield acceptable scores with respect to the arithmetic mean. It is concluded that the evaluated academic program contributes significantly to the comprehensive training of physical educators, in terms of professional skills specific to the specific area and develops social skills, in order to continuously innovate teacher training in higher education.