PE 411 - Measurement & Evaluation
PE 411 Tests and Measurements in Physical Education
This course uses the SAKAI coursesite through the LAMP portal for access to complete syllabus, notes, handouts, etc.
Assessment and evaluation of sports skills, physical fitness, health-related fitness, and other factors for physical education programs K-12. Emphasis is placed on evaluation techniques.
Bishop, Phillip A. (2008). Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Activity Applications: Physical Education, Coaching, Athletic Training, Allied Health, and Life; Holcomb Hathaway, Publishers, Inc.; ISBN 978-1-890871-83-3
- Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationships among goals, objectives, tests, measurement, and evaluation;
- Students will be able to differentiate among validity, reliability, and objectivity and apply these concepts to test construction and evaluation;
- Students will be able to differentiate between measurement and evaluation;
- Students will be able to describe tests used to evaluate fitness and wellness;
- Students will be able to define and differentiate between reliability and objectivity for norm-referenced tests and for criterion-referenced tests;
- Students will be able to define validity and describe factors that influence validity;
- Students will be able to differentiate between motor-fitness and health-fitness batteries;
- Students will be able to identify and administer appropriate batteries for measurement and evaluation.
Course Relationship to Major Program and Department:
This course is a requirement for the Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sports and Fitness Management emphases in the Department of Exercise and Sports Sciences.
Course Relationship to Knowledge of Content Area and Skills:
- Knowledge about the measurement process;
- Ability to use numbers and statistics in measurement and evaluation;
- Ability to identify, select and perform appropriate measurement and evaluation for the population group in various physical education, exercise science, coaching, athletic training, and health areas.
- Measurement error, validity, reliability, and objectivity;
- Devising measurement tests;
- Understanding measurement and practical statistics for physical activity and health;
- Measuring physical fitness, exercise, physical activity, and health;
- Measuring psychomotor performance and sports skills (including competitive sports and coaching);
- Alternative approaches to measurement;
- Subjective measurement vs. objective measurement;
- Measurement and evaluating in students;
- Measurement in employees;
- Measurement in research.