Year 9
Health and Physical Education Support Materials
Assessment Principle 2
Assessment should be educative
Physical Education snapshot: Measuring the body’s responses
Health and Physical Education/Physical Education/Movement and physical activity/Understanding movement
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Measurement of the body’s response to physical activity:
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Nature of the assessment
Short in-class test
Purposes of the assessment
To assess students’ understanding of how the body responds to physical activity and ways that these responses can be measured
Stage in the Teaching sequence
End of a teaching cycle – summative assessment
Assessment task
The teacher gave the class a short test. Students were asked to:
- describe how regular physical activity can improve flexibility, strength, balance and endurance
- identify one simple test that can be used to measure each
- describe one of the tests in more detail.
Using the information
After marking the test, the teacher gave students an opportunity to reflect on their test using the marking key to see what they needed to review to improve their understanding of how the body’s responses to physical activity can be measured.