1. Smart PE: Grading and Assessments
Deb Van Klei
Stillwater Area Public Schools
HealthyMOVES PEP grant coordinator

2. Why do we assess?
Used to monitor, reinforce, and plan for student learning
Plan curriculum
Plan daily lessons
Communicate with parents
Identify children with special needs
Evaluate the program’s effectiveness
Brainstorm

3. Types of assessments What types are you using and how? MVPA: steps
Heart Zones Points: Training Load
Student Projects
Allows students to create new movement strategies from learned material
Portfolios
Allows for representative collection of a student’s work over time
Intent is to involve students in assessment and have ownership of what goes into portfolio
Event Tasks- Asks students to create something during a single instructional period
Gymnastics routine, playing a game, dance routines, warm-up routine
Student Logs / Journals- Provide the opportunity to personalize the PE experience
Effective for assessing affective domain
Brainstorm a list

4. Standards Based assessments
5 National Standards in Physical Education
MN standards and benchmarks
Minnesota still has 6
(based on old 2008 national standards)
Data drives decisions- health and physical activity

5. Using National PE standards to determine what we will assess
Elementary-48 benchmarks
Standard benchmarks
Standard 2- 5 benchmarks
Standard 3- 6 benchmarks
Standard 4- 6 benchmarks
Standard 5- 4 benchmarks
Middle School- 68 benchmarks
Standard benchmarks
Standard benchmarks
Standard benchmarks
Standard 4- 7 benchmarks
Standard 5- 6 benchmarks
High School—29 benchmarks
Standard 1- 3 benchmarks
Standard 2- 4 benchmarks
Standard benchmarks
Standard 4- 5 benchmarks
Standard 5- 4 benchmarks

6. Meaningful assessments
Fitness testing
Skills testing
Formative(exit slips etc)
Summative
Cognitive, physical, participation

7. Types of assessments Show a variety of assessment Use skill videos
Use pedometer spreadsheets or step trackers
Use csv files from Heart Zones System
Peer assessments
Personal Best assessments

8. Rubrics in 4 easy steps
Step 1: Plan and design you units one at a time, week-by-week
Step 2: Choose one or two things you want your students to know, understand and be able to do by the end of the unit
Step 3: Determine how many levels your rubrics will have and what they will be called
Step 4: Write your performance descriptors
Share the pelinks4u article

9. Purpose of a Rubric Purposes of Rubrics:
1. Help teacher define excellence and plan how to help students achieve it.
2. Communicates to students what constitutes excellence
3. Communicates goals and results to parents
4. Helps other teachers be accurate , unbiased in scoring
5. Maintains instructional alignment

10. Using data to transform learning
Data is powerful-objective not subjective
Powerful for student engagement
Powerful for teacher engagement
Powerful for parent engagement
Powerful for community engagement

11. Using technology to help you
Plickers
Google forms
Using Autocrat

12. What is it we are trying to accomplish?
Physically literate students
Kids who fall in love with movement
Teacher engagement

13. Baby steps- how to get there
Backwards mapping
Identifying Essential Learner Outcomes and Learning Targets

14. Questions

15. Resources National PE standards book PE metrics
Smart PE: Heart Rate Monitors and Step trackers for Physical Education