Assessment-Driven Instruction in Physical Education: A Standards-Based Approach to Promoting and Documenting Learning - Softcover

Jacalyn Lea Lund; Mary Lou Veal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1450419917 ISBN 13: 9781450419918

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 2013

Synopsis

This title deals with using standards based assessment to advance student learning. For the enlightened teacher, assessment can be a powerful tool for informing teaching decisions, improving learning and helping achieve learning standards. With this new book and web resource, teachers can learn how to develop assessments and gather information that helps monitor student progress, structure effective lessons and make grading more accurate and systematic. Assessment Driven Instruction in Physical Education shows how to use standards based assessment to advance and support student learning in primary and high school physical education programmes. The accompanying web resource contains assessment building practice tasks in a convenient downloadable format, offering an accessible and efficient way to develop knowledge and skills in assessment.

About this title

About the Author

Jacalyn Lund is a professor and chair in the department of kinesiology and health at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She taught for 16 years before entering the doctoral programme at Ohio State University to prepare for a second career in teacher education. She received her PhD in 1990. Mary Lou Veal, began her teaching career as a primary school physical education teacher in Dallas, Texas. She taught physical education for 16 years to all age groups from primary to sixth form.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1450419917
• ISBN 13: 9781450419918
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224