ESS 321 Evaluation in Health Education and Physical Education

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ESS 321 Evaluation in Health Education and
Physical Education
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Terminology

• Measurement
• Evaluation
• Assessment
• Grading
• Instrument
• Criteria
• Testing

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Assessment

• Not just for grading
• Holds students AND TEACHERS accountable for
  learning
• Acquisition of S/K/D vs. exposure experience
• Should be seen as the enhancement of learning
  rather than just documentation of learning.
• Assessment becomes informative and on-going.

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Reasons for Assessment

• Motivation
• Diagnosis
• Classification
• Achievement/Evaluation of students
• Evaluation of Instruction
• Evaluation of Programs

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Assessment must be

• Valid
• Reliable
• Objective
• Feasible
• Authentic

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Instructional Alignment

• Identify program and unit goals
• How do goals relate to Standards?
• Design assessments
• What would be evidence that a goal was attained?
• Plan teaching based on goals
• What can I do to help students attain the goal?
• Process often described as backward planning or
  designing down
• Do real teachers do this?

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Content Standards

• Specifies what student should know and be able to
  do.
• What are they?

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Performance Standards

• Defines what is good enough
• Indicates desired quality of student performance.
• Describes conditions in which performance occurs

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Performance Benchmarks

• Behaviors that indicate progress toward a
  performance standard.

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Rubrics

• Criteria and standards used to evaluate
  performance

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Data Collection

• Process
• Product

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Product Measurement

• Measures outcome or result
• Especially for summative evaluation
• Achievement
• Progress
• What is the product of teaching?

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Process Measurement

• Measure components of action
• Especially good for formative assessment
• Technique
• Form
• What is the process of teaching?

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Qualitative / Quantitative

• QT Assign number to represent characteristic or
  behavior
• QL Describe characteristic or behavior in words
• Some (mis)use QT to mean product
• Some (mis)use QL to mean process
• There are actually 4 possible combinations of P/P
  and QT/QL

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Assessment in the Domains

• Psychomotor
• Skill
• Fitness
• Cognitive
• Affective
• What is worth assessing in physical education?