ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PEDAGOGY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A and declared in Physical Education Course Designation: Core GenEd - Mathematics & Quantitative Reasoning Comm QR - Quantitative Reasoning B Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize the concept of assessment and identify the criteria for a good assessment instrument. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Recall the concept of research, various research designs, and the importance of research in physical education. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop skills in quantitative reasoning, including: manipulate quantitative information to create models, and devise solutions to problems using multi-step arguments using quantitative information, evaluate models and arguments using quantitative information, and express and interpret in context models, solutions and arguments using verbal, numerical, and computational techniques. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Apply the sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of producing assessment instruments in the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains, focusing on the five national standards. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of conducting a research project, including writing methods, analyzing data, discussing results, drawing conclusions, and presenting findings, and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize the concept of assessment and identify the criteria for a good assessment instrument. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Recall the concept of research, various research designs, and the importance of research in physical education. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop skills in quantitative reasoning, including: manipulate quantitative information to create models, and devise solutions to problems using multi-step arguments using quantitative information, evaluate models and arguments using quantitative information, and express and interpret in context models, solutions and arguments using verbal, numerical, and computational techniques. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Apply the sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of producing assessment instruments in the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains, focusing on the five national standards. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of conducting a research project, including writing methods, analyzing data, discussing results, drawing conclusions, and presenting findings, and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course. Audience: Undergraduate