Measuring Performance in Students

Why this really important!

The Value of Measurement

Invaluable when done with purpose Connected to goals and objectivesTeachers make informed decisions related

to their students and their curriculumPlacement/ClassificationAchievement ImprovementMotivation

What does this mean to you?

“If physical education is to survive and flourish, it is imperative that they rely on measurement and evaluative techniques in the decision-making process.”

Three Domains

Physical Education is comprised of:Psychomotor = skills and fitnessCognitive = knowledge based learningAffective/Personal-Social = attitudes & interactions

Domains

Psychomotor If lessons have skill objectives, those skills

must be evaluatedSkills tests [rubrics]Teacher observation [rubrics]Peer observation [rubrics]

To measure if the student did the activity w/o evaluating skill is measurement of participation and that is an affective/personal-social attribute

Domains

Cognitive If lessons have cognitive objectives, they

must be evaluatedOral “quiz”Written quizRole plays, scenarios, posters etc… can demo

knowledge, it depends on the PURPOSE of the activity [rubrics]

Domains

Affective or Personal-Social If lessons have affective objectives, they

must be evaluatedRole plays, scenarios, posters, advertisements

etc… can demo knowledge, it depends on the PURPOSE of the activity [rubrics]

Journals, reflections

Outcomes

Learning MUST be:ObservableMeasurableRepeatable

Must identify observable behaviors that will tell us if we met our objectivesObjectives drive development of the lesson,

the practice or the workout

Performance

Performance Has historically been product based

Examples??Leads to notion only “athletes” can do wellDiscourages learnersDefeats the purpose of education/fitness

Lifetime activity for all

Should be process based

Outcomes Education

We must document learning If we want to be in school curriculum, we

must document as other disciplines do or clearly identify the components of our assessments

If we can not document learning in 3 domains, we will have a hard time justifying the program in the schools

Terminology

Summative Evaluation = administration of tests at the conclusion of an instruction unit or training period After instruction or training

Terminology

Formative Evaluation = begins during early stages and continues throughout instructionDuring instruction or trainingDiagnosis and feedback are key

Terminology

Norm-referenced judge an individual’s performance in

relation to that of others in a well defined group

Test a large # of people to developCommon to use percentile rankPresidential Physical Fitness Test

Terminology

Criterion referencedUsed to find if a specified level of

performance has been reachedYes/no; pass/fail; master/non-masterFITNESSGRAM