Year 7
Health and Physical Education Support Materials
Assessment Principle 4
Assessments should be designed to meet their specific purposes
Physical Education snapshot: Basketball
Health and Physical Education/Physical Education/Movement and physical activity/Moving our body
| Content Description |
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Strategic skills and tactical skills used to create, use and defend space Defensive skills used to gain control and retain possession |
Nature of the assessment
Observation of students’ ability in offensive and defensive skills
Purposes of the assessment
To determine students’ ability to apply tactical responses in a competitive context
Stage in the Teaching sequence
One of several similar assessments conducted at regular intervals across a teaching sequence – formative assessment
Assessment task
Students were arranged into teams of four and played a basketball game on half of the court, following normal basketball rules.
Assessment process
The teacher grouped students by ability and changed their grouping if she felt they were being disadvantaged.
The teacher observed students in terms of their:
Offensive skills:
- moves to create options
- creates and maintains space
- anticipates ball movement and moves to effective attacking position
- creates attacking goal shooting options
- uses ball skills effectively
- shows evidence of strategic thinking in attacking moves.
Defensive skills:
- reads play and moves to defend
- anticipates ball movement and moves to effective defensive position
- uses ball skills effectively
- shows evidence of strategic thinking in blocking attack.
Using the information
The teacher used her observations to correct individual students’ techniques and to inform her reporting.