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Eric Erb (Erbmeng)
Junior Member
Username: Erbmeng
Post Number: 4
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 2:16 pm: |       |
When administering a fitness test in your physical education class, what are some ways that you assess the students results, and which is the better way of assessing? Is it better to grade the students results based on national standards for where the students results should be, or do you go based on improvement from the beginning of the year to the end? Or do you apply both forms of assessing when it comes to fitness testing results? The reason I ask is because if you grade based on improvement, and you have an athlete who is in great shape and performs well in the beginning of the year and does not improve his or her results much at the end of the year, it would not be fair to grade that student on his or her improvement. And the same for if you grade based on the students times and numbers against national standards and requirements for students who are not able to do push-ups, or run a mile in a certain time. So how would you apply the different styles of assessment to fitness testing? |
stephanie stercho (Sls3816)
Junior Member
Username: Sls3816
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2008
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 11:34 am: | |
In regards to fitness testing, you should not grade the students at all by their scores. As you already said, improvements will be different for each person, especially if they are an athlete. A good way to grade in respect to their results would be having them interpret their results and have them identify ways to improve/maintain their health. This could be done on a separate worksheet made by the teacher. |
michael sekura (Mjs7149)
Junior Member
Username: Mjs7149
Post Number: 2
Registered: 2-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 1:29 pm: | |
When talking about fitness testing students should not be graded on their actual results. Their results should be kept private and handed out only to the student and the parents for formative use so they have some feedback. What you can do is make a simple rubric for the students to analyze their results so you know they understand them. You can ask quesitons like what is youre weakest or strongest area of fitness ie.. cardio or muscluar strength. Then for each one you can have the student write what activities they currently participate in that could improve these areas or what they could do. This is also a good interdisciplanary assignment for working on a students writing skills. |
Harley Hoag (Backslide)
Junior Member
Username: Backslide
Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2008
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2008 - 5:09 pm: | |
I do both. I use a minimum mark (10th percentile on presidential) and improvement. 8 pts for min. mark and 12 for improving, all 20 if you do both. I also use the 50th or so percentile as a mark if you reach you get all 20 pts even if you do not improve. |
