FTCE Physical Education K-12:
Assessment Strategies
Naturalistic Observations - correct answer ✔✔This type of observation entail unobtrusively observing
student performance as it typically occurs in students' usual daily setting, e.g., practice during regular PE
classes. While this method has the advantage of seeing realistic instances of typical student behaviors, it
has been criticized for allowing the teacher's judgments to be overly subjective.
Structured Observations - correct answer ✔✔a data collecting method in which researchers gather data
without direct involvement with the participants (the researchers watch from afar) and the collection
technique is structured in a well defined and procedural manner.
Station Approach - correct answer ✔✔In structured observations, teachers set up a circuit with several
stations, assigning students to individual stations. What type of approach is this?
Embedded Assessment - correct answer ✔✔In structured observations, teachers instruct and assess
simultaneously, evaluating students' learning while they practice skills—through periodic progress
monitoring or end-of-unit summative assessment. This type of assessment is?
Cognitive Domain - correct answer ✔✔the knowledge component whereby students think and relate
their experiences to learning.
Affective Domain - correct answer ✔✔the personal, emotional, and social component whereby students
interact with other people, developing a sense of self and others
Psychomotor Domain - correct answer ✔✔the performance component whereby students acquire
physical skills through environmental exploration.
Informal Assessments - correct answer ✔✔1. Checklists
2. Rating Scales
3. Student surveys, questionnaires, and interviews
, 4. Student journals
Formal Assessments - correct answer ✔✔1. Rubrics
2. Student logs
3. Student projects
4. Written tests and worksheets
President's Challenge - correct answer ✔✔This type of challenge assesses and gives students feedback
about their levels of fitness. It tests students using exercises including right-angled pushups, pull-ups,
curl-ups, endurance running and walking, the V-sit and reach, and shuttle runs.
Fitnessgram - correct answer ✔✔tests student levels of muscular strength, aerobic capacity, flexibility,
endurance, and body composition. The 3 main areas evaluated are: Aerobic capacity, body composition,
and muscle strength, endurance, and flexibility.
Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) - correct answer ✔✔An award for adult fitness test
Presidential Champions Challenge - correct answer ✔✔Challenge for individuals with more ambitious
activity goals.
Presidential Youth Fitness Program - correct answer ✔✔Program to teach students lifelong fitness and
health.
Standardized Assessment - correct answer ✔✔This assessment can provide a comparison of the learning
a student demonstrates to a national or state average.
Authentic Assessments - correct answer ✔✔This assessment can be individualized, whereas
standardized assessments cannot. They indicate more about what a student knows and can do in
conditions and situations more akin to real life. They can focus more on how a student applies ability and
knowledge.
Norm-referenced Test - correct answer ✔✔This test compares the student's scores to a previously
established norm.
Assessment Strategies
Naturalistic Observations - correct answer ✔✔This type of observation entail unobtrusively observing
student performance as it typically occurs in students' usual daily setting, e.g., practice during regular PE
classes. While this method has the advantage of seeing realistic instances of typical student behaviors, it
has been criticized for allowing the teacher's judgments to be overly subjective.
Structured Observations - correct answer ✔✔a data collecting method in which researchers gather data
without direct involvement with the participants (the researchers watch from afar) and the collection
technique is structured in a well defined and procedural manner.
Station Approach - correct answer ✔✔In structured observations, teachers set up a circuit with several
stations, assigning students to individual stations. What type of approach is this?
Embedded Assessment - correct answer ✔✔In structured observations, teachers instruct and assess
simultaneously, evaluating students' learning while they practice skills—through periodic progress
monitoring or end-of-unit summative assessment. This type of assessment is?
Cognitive Domain - correct answer ✔✔the knowledge component whereby students think and relate
their experiences to learning.
Affective Domain - correct answer ✔✔the personal, emotional, and social component whereby students
interact with other people, developing a sense of self and others
Psychomotor Domain - correct answer ✔✔the performance component whereby students acquire
physical skills through environmental exploration.
Informal Assessments - correct answer ✔✔1. Checklists
2. Rating Scales
3. Student surveys, questionnaires, and interviews
, 4. Student journals
Formal Assessments - correct answer ✔✔1. Rubrics
2. Student logs
3. Student projects
4. Written tests and worksheets
President's Challenge - correct answer ✔✔This type of challenge assesses and gives students feedback
about their levels of fitness. It tests students using exercises including right-angled pushups, pull-ups,
curl-ups, endurance running and walking, the V-sit and reach, and shuttle runs.
Fitnessgram - correct answer ✔✔tests student levels of muscular strength, aerobic capacity, flexibility,
endurance, and body composition. The 3 main areas evaluated are: Aerobic capacity, body composition,
and muscle strength, endurance, and flexibility.
Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) - correct answer ✔✔An award for adult fitness test
Presidential Champions Challenge - correct answer ✔✔Challenge for individuals with more ambitious
activity goals.
Presidential Youth Fitness Program - correct answer ✔✔Program to teach students lifelong fitness and
health.
Standardized Assessment - correct answer ✔✔This assessment can provide a comparison of the learning
a student demonstrates to a national or state average.
Authentic Assessments - correct answer ✔✔This assessment can be individualized, whereas
standardized assessments cannot. They indicate more about what a student knows and can do in
conditions and situations more akin to real life. They can focus more on how a student applies ability and
knowledge.
Norm-referenced Test - correct answer ✔✔This test compares the student's scores to a previously
established norm.
