What was described in my previous post was step one of the assessment plan presented at the 50 Million Strong Forum at the SHAPE America Convention in Boston 2017. Step one involved the use of nationally available high school and middle school level data to track our 50 Million Strong progress and guide our actions. In addition to the discussed behaviors addressed in YRBS and policies addressed by SHHPS and SHAPE of the Nation, teachers must be able to assess the national health and physical education content standards. Students must learn the skills, knowledge, competence and desire to be physically active and make healthy choices and so we need to track program success in the national standards. To this end there is a need for additional assessments teachers can use that showcase student mastery of key knowledge, and skills. These are being developed by additional task forces. A brief overview is given below.
| Assessment | Rationale for use | Examples |
| NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE MEASURES
National surveillance measures of health behaviors (mostly self report), state and national policy (selected items from YRBS, SHAPE of the Nation, SHHPS)
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BIG PICTURE
These are widely discussed and accepted valid and reliable national measures of healthy behaviors collected by national agencies. It is important that SHAPE America is able to point to changes in accepted measures as evidence of our effectiveness as well as for use in guiding our interventions. |
Number of days student meets the national standard for vigorous physical activity.
Number of fruits and vegetables consumed. |
| NATIONAL STANDARDS Performance measures of the national standards (Student performance measures).
Task forces headed by Judy Rink for physical education and Cindy Allen for health education assessment project (HEAP). |
These are standardized performance based surveillance measures (done at a few specific grade levels) that every teacher could administer to analyze overall student mastery of the national content standards. Because they are standardized, data will be able to collected and rolled up to begin to look at performance mastery national trends.
The Research Council will help gather data across the country on these select items to provide a national data base related to student achievement that can be used in a variety of areas of research. By design this is a very select group of measures that will provide teachers and the profession with valuable information, but will not provide teachers with assessments for each unit taught. |
Select items each for grades 2, 5, 8, HS
Motor skill items; fitness plans etc..
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| PEMETRICS/HEAP
PEMetrics & HEAP Data banks of assessments related to the national standards and grade level expectations |
While Judy Rink’s and Cindy Allen’s committees are determining a couple of surveillance points for physical literacy, teachers also need to assess mastery of skills and knowledge gained by students for each unit of instruction. PE Metrics provides useful assessment examples related to grade level expectations that teachers can use to assess specific areas of learning in their classes | Standard one skill assessments
Has recently been released and will be available at the national convention in Nashville. |
| APEAS II
APEAS II Adapted Physical Education Assessment Scale |
A revision of this instrument has been in the works for some time. The purpose of this battery of Items is to help determine if students qualify for adapted physical education and to track growth for students within adapted physical education over time. The best use of this tool is for developing measurable IEP goals based on current performance of skills. | Basic motor skills |
| COMPUTERIZED ASSESSMENTS
AIRS measures for standards 2-5 This is an exploratory project testing a databank of 1500 questions based on the national standards and grade level expectations. Right now they are being piloted in districts across the country to determine their strength in measuring mastery of the national standards.
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This will provide a national data bank of questions that can be administered efficiently by computer and could provide teachers with valuable help in identifying mastery of the national standards. Since fitness measures are often the only standardized measures available a data bank of this sort could be extremely valuable This would provide data on student success in mastering grade level expectations. | Data base of 1500 items representing the national standards grade level expectations that are administered electronically.. Teacher would receive an analysis of their students’ performance. |
Through this combination of approaches, SHAPE America’s 50 Million Strong commitment will be able to highlight and review nationally accepted valid and reliable data, gather data on national standards at chosen grade levels, and choose appropriate PE Metrics and HEAP assessments for use in assessing student success in specific units of instruction.
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