Lecture 4 MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT Flashcards
What is Testing?
- Testing, use of instruments, protocols or techniques to measure
a quantity or quality of properties or attributes of interest
What are the general categories of testing approaches?
- Standardized approaches
- Alternative approaches
What is a Measurement?
result of the testing
What is an evaluation?
Assessment-interpret measurement data and make judgement by comparison with predetermined criteria
What are Norm-Referenced Standards?
- Comparisons are made with others from a specifically defined
group (e.g., age, sex, disability). - Norms are usually developed by testing large numbers, and
results are tabulated.
What does a Criterion-Referenced Standards test made from?
- Comparisons are made with predetermined mastery scores
(minimally acceptable scores for a particular purpose). - Criteria are determined by expert opinion, research data,
logic, experience, and so on.
What is a Standardized Approached test?
- Usually include published tests
- Specific directions and conditions for test administration
are followed for validity and reliability
What is an Alternative Approaches test?
Teachers often construct these
Strong authentically but weak psychometrically (Often rely on subjective evaluation)
What is a Task Analysis?
Breaking skills down into smaller, sometimes sequentially ordered, steps or focal points
When used as an assessment instrument, missing components are identified, and a strategy for teaching is revealed
What is the difference between Standardized and Alternative Testing
- Standardized-more objective, less subjective bias
- Alternative-subjective observation reliant more “real life”
- Combination of both captures some objectivity and real-
world usefulness of alternative strategies
What to Assess in Adapted Physical Education?
- Physical and motor fitness
- Fundamental motor skills and patterns
- Skills in aquatics, dance, and individual and group games and sports (including intramural and lifetime sports)
What is the purpose of the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale?
to assess the fine and gross motor development of children
(ages 0-5)
What is the purpose of Test of Gross Motor Development-3?
to test fundamental movement patterns in preschool and early elementary children with emphasis on process rather than product of performance
What is the purpose of Sport Skills Program Guides?
to assist in the assessment and instruction of sport skills
for people with disabilities (aged 8 and up)
What is the purpose of the Brock port Physical Fitness Test?
to assess the health-related fitness of young people (aged
10-17) with certain disabilities
What is the purpose of the Berg Balance Scale?
Objective measure of ability to balance
safely during functional tasks
