Physical Education
Appendix D: Assessment and Evaluation - Generic Tools

Student Journals

Assessment of student performance may also be supported through the use of journals. Student journals are a powerful tool for encouraging students to reflect on their experiences. Journals may be fairly structured, or they may be a general review of the events of the week in the physical education class. Entries may comment on a specific activity or topic or provide a broad reflection on progress or an issue.

Journals are an important aspect of communication between the student and teacher. Students may ask questions, indicate successes, or identify areas where they need further assistance to develop skills.

Teachers can respond to student journals in a letter, with a short comment in the journal, or verbally to the student.

Prompts for Daily Journal Reflections

Today we talked/learned/participated in . . . I tried to . . . I asked . . . I found out . . . I wish I had . . . One question I'm taking away to think more about is . . . The steps I took to participate effectively were . . . The problems I encountered were . . . To solve these problems I . . . The resources and people I used to help were . . .

Reflection on Activity/Project

Student Name: Date: Activity/Project Title:

Activity/Project description: The most surprising aspect of this activity/project for me was: I would Like to find out more about: If I were to do this activity/project again I would: I could help a student who is doing a similar activity/project by: The biggest problem I had was: I solved this problem by: What I enjoyed most about this activity/project was:

Portfolios

A portfolio is a purposeful collection of a student's work that shows the student's effort, progress, and achievement over time. Items in a portfolio can be suggested by the teacher or selected by the student. Portfolios provide information for a comprehensive assessment of student development. Criteria for evaluation can be established for each reporting period. Student entries should be dated so the teacher can track each student's development over time.

Active living portfolios could include the students' planning and goal-setting worksheets and activities, photographs of a student's participation in healthy physical activities, journal entries, documents sharing out-of-school accomplishments in physical activity, or student-generated art pieces reflecting on active lifestyle experiences. Student entries should be dated so the teacher can track each student's development over time.

Portfolio Entry Conference
Student Name: Date: Project:
Student Comments: Two reasons I chose this item are: I want you to notice: Next time I might: Other comments: Signature:                         Date:	Teacher Comments: Two positive things I noticed are: One specific area to work on is: Other comments: Signature:                         Date:

Interviews

Interviews can provide valuable information about the understanding, thoughts, and feelings of students about physical education. Interviews may give students an opportunity to reflect on the unit of study and the teacher a chance to gather information about the student's knowledge and attitudes as well as diagnose student needs. Interviews may take the form of a planned sequence of questions which lead to open-ended discussions, or they may require independent completion of specific questions. Informal interviews between the teacher and student should take place on a regular basis throughout instruction.

Questions

Teacher Notes

How did you feel about your participation in this activity? What do you think about ________________________? How do your team members feel about you? Did you have any new thoughts when ________________________? How did you go about ________________________? Tell me another way of doing ________________________? What would happen if ________________________? Why did you ________________________? What did or did not work? Tell me what you learned from ________________________. What else would you like to know? Is there anything you would like to change? How well do you think you've done? Tell me how or where or when you might use ________________________? What physical education skills were taught or learned?

Observation Sheets

Observation sheets may be used to assess an individual student or a co-operative activity. It is recommended that teachers focus their assessment by selecting only a few attributes for each observation. In any one class time, teachers will find time to be a limiting factor and may only observe a small portion of the students in the class. This information is useful when reporting on individual student progress.

Student ______________________  Week_____________

Observation Notes: ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

Daily Observation Sheet Name (s) _________________________________________________________
Date	Activity	Observed Behaviour	Program Suggestions

Planning and Goal-Setting Worksheets

Setting individual goals for progress in physical education is an important assessment strategy. Planning and goal-setting worksheets, including reflections on physical interests and abilities, and specifying both short- and long-term goals, can form the basis for students progress in the various units of a physical education program.

Checklists

Checklists allow the teacher to observe the entire class "at a glance." They provide a quick reference sheet that can identify specific information regarding student attitudes, knowledge, or skills by the observing teacher. Checklists allow the teacher to create an individual record-keeping system such as by date, legend of skill proficiency, or by use of a simple checkmark identifying a yes or no. Checklists can be useful in developing a learning profile that indicates growth over time. Checklists may be created to gather information about student co-operation, participation, attitude, leadership, or skill development.