Assessment Strategies in Health and Physical Education

Apply a variety of assessment techniques when assessing children in the health and physical education domains.

Synthesize the differences between the various types of assessment techniques and the appropriate use of each.

Identify and apply basic measurement and statistical terminology.

Analyze the relationship of assessment to curriculum development and instruction.

Through practical application demonstrate the value of using a variety of technological devices, computer technology and software programs in assessing and evaluating students in health and physical education.

Analyze the differences between and among the terms: 'grading', 'evaluating', and 'assessing'.

Compare/contrasts the various methods of computing grades for children in health and physical education.

Examine grading philosophies that integrate assessment designs and developmentally appropriate teaching strategies.

Apply and evaluate the differences between the six levels of Bloom's of Taxonomy of Educational Disciplines: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Evaluate the variables that may interfere with assessing performance abilities of children, such as examiner influences, the assessment tool itself, physical, cognitive, social, or emotional factors of students, as well the environment, just to name a few.

Assess the processes involved and procedures used in creating a rubics for a selected health and physical activity/sport.

Evaluate a variety of performances on selected test items from FitnessGram.

Analysize the uses of the FitnessGram/ActivityGram software package.

Analyze and interpret score sheets for the Test of Gross Motor Development-2 (TGMD-2).

Evaluate test designs for a variety of activities and levels.

Explain correlations between Vocabulary, Intellegence and Academic Achievement.

Apply and evaluate a list of Assessment tools that can be used to evaluate Reading proficiency levels and Comprehension levels of K-12 students.