Meeting Physical Education Standards Through Meaningful Assessment: Research-Based Strategies for Secondary Teachers

As the use of standards-based assessment spreads in response to the increased emphasis on accountability, physical educators are faced with the task of demonstrating how their curricula and learning outcomes align with national, state, and district standards. Implementing assessments that align with each of these standards can be a real challenge.

Meeting Physical Education Standards Through Meaningful Assessment: Research-Based Strategies for Secondary Teachers will help you simplify this task. With practical, easy-to-implement strategies, this resource guides both experienced and novice secondary physical education teachers in assessing students to ensure they learn what is essential for leading vigorous, healthy, and active lives as adults.

Meeting Physical Education Standards Through Meaningful Assessment begins with a quick primer on the benefits of using standards-based assessment, helping you become familiar with current national standards as well as the importance of selecting effective assessment strategies. Next, you’ll learn about six power standards that are based on NASPE standards and detail clear objectives designed to encourage your students’ growth as physically educated individuals, such as fitness knowledge, self-motivation, and sportsmanship. Each power standard includes a corresponding kid-friendly objective that states the standard’s intent in easy-to-understand language so you can communicate to your students what you want them to achieve. Each standard also identifies learning targets that define what is necessary for achieving that standard. You’ll learn how to assess students on each of the power standards and how to plan physical education lessons that connect to each standard.

Next, you’ll discover how game-based assessments can help you evaluate students according to each standard in the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains. These active assessments also keep your students engaged and challenged and help you make the most of your instructional time. Finally, you’ll learn how to assess students on several standards simultaneously during activity and how to differentiate instruction.

Meeting Physical Education Standards Through Meaningful Assessment jump-starts your assessment overhaul with ready-to-use formative and summative assessments, including templates and answer keys for each form. All of these forms and templates are accessible online through the book’s accompanying web resource.

If you want to change your current assessment system and are looking for some help getting started, then this book is for you! Strengthen your assessment process, align your curriculum with physical education standards, and help your students on the path toward a lifetime of physical fitness with Meeting Physical Education Standards Through Meaningful Assessment.

Greg Bert, MA, is a physical education teacher at Black Hills High School in Olympia, Washington, and an adjunct instructor in the education department at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington.

He is a national board-certified teacher in physical education of early adolescence and young adulthood. Bert has three decades of experience teaching high school and middle school physical education as well as community college and university physical education courses. Bert is a member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD); the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE); and the Washington Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (WAPHERD).

In 2011 Bert received the Meritorious Service Award from WAPHERD. He was also named the NASPE Northwest Regional High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year in 2007 and Washington State High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year in 2004. Bert earned his MA in physical education in 1987 from California State University at Los Angeles. He holds a BA in physical education from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.

Bert resides in Olympia. In his free time he enjoys playing tennis, fitness training, conducting physical education research, and spending time with his family.

Lisa Summers, MA, teaches physical education at Black Hills High School in Olympia, Washington. She has more than 15 years of experience teaching physical education at the high school level.

Summers is a national board-certified teacher in physical education for early adolescence and young adulthood. She earned a BA in physical education from Western Washington University in Bellingham in 1996 and an MA in education and assessment from the University of Washington at Seattle in 2001.

In 2009 Summers received the National High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year Award. She was also named the Washington State High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year in 2007. She is a member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD); the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE); and the Washington Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (WAPHERD).

In her free time, Summers enjoys water skiing, playing soccer, and running. She resides in Olympia.