The effect of embedded Adventure Education in physical education at Far East University

This study aimed to investigate the effect of embedded AE(Adventure Education) course in physical education at Fat East University. The participants were 1418 first-year students at Far East University. 1418 surveys were distributed after two-week implementation of AE course. 1395 surveys were considered valid after 23 surveys were discarded for incompletion. This represented a 98% return rate. 923 male (66.2%), 472 female (33.8%). The collected data were conducted by frequency analysis on SPSS 12.0 software. The result findings are as follows: 1. Course objectives: around 70% students agreed that AE is helpful to promote the learning of cooperation (77%), team-decision making (72.4%), and trust-building (70.6%). Around 60% students agreed that AE is beneficial to promote the learning of expression and communication(59.1%), problem-solving (58.9%), and empathy (57.4%). 2. Effect of implementation: 52.2% students were satisfied with the arrangement of embedded AE in physical education, 51.5% were satisfied with the process of AE course, 50.6% were satisfied with this AE activity, 46.6% believed that the arrangement of AE course is helpful.