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child is progressing throughout the unit. Ultimately, assessing throughout a unit can provide
valuable feedback for students, parents, and faculty.
After understanding the basis for assessment in physical education, it is important to
understand what types of assessment should be presented in the physical education setting.
Although traditional assessments are extremely beneficial when assessing the cognitive domain,
students can greatly benefit from alternative and authentic assessment in the physical education
setting. Although alternative assessment can also assess the cognitive domain, they are very
useful in testing the affective domain as students can work with peers to achieve a common goal.
In addition to this, authentic assessments are extremely useful when testing the psychomotor
domain and rubrics can be used to help teachers keep track of student progress throughout these
types of assessments. Although paper-pencil assessments can be very effective, technology is
extremely useful, especially at the middle school level. For instance, I have used my iPad
throughout the teaching modules for visuals and this has proven to be extremely beneficial to
student learning as students study images much longer and take in the details. In reference to
assessing, video projects, power points, and other forms of technology are great ways for students
to become more involved with unit-material and provide a great alternative assessment that they
enjoy. All-in-all, many types of assessment can prove to be effective in physical education and
should be used!
With all of this being said, it is extremely important to remember that assessments should
be aligned with objectives, which in-turn should be aligned and work-towards achieving national
and state standards. In conclusions, the importance of assessment in physical education is not
just for accreditation purposes. Assessment provides students and parents a clear explanation of
student progress when aligned properly with learning objectives, in addition to providing self-
evaluations for teachers which reassure that the material being taught is developmentally
appropriate.
Reference:
Stanford University. "Assessment: FAQ." Www.stanford.edu. Stanford University, n.d. Web.
<http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/irds/assessment/faq.html>.