Assessment-Driven Instruction in Physical Education With Web Resource: A Standards-Based Approach to Promoting and Documenting L

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This title deals with using standards-based assessment to advance student learning. For the enlightened teacher, assessment can be a powerful tool for informing teaching decisions, improving learning and helping achieve learning standards. With this new book and web resource, teachers can learn how to develop assessments and gather information that helps monitor student progress, structure effective lessons and make grading more accurate and systematic. Assessment-Driven Instruction in Physical Education shows how to use standards-based assessment to advance and support student learning in primary and high school physical education programmes. The accompanying web resource contains assessment-building practice tasks in a convenient downloadable format, offering an accessible and efficient way to develop knowledge and skills in assessment.

Jacalyn Lea Lund, PhD, is a professor and chair in the department of kinesiology and health at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She taught for 16 years in public schools before entering the doctoral program at Ohio State University to prepare for a second career in teacher education. She received her PhD in 1990. Dr. Lund has presented on assessment at numerous workshops and has taught numerous classes on assessment in physical education. Dr. Lund has been a member of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) for more than 40 years. She was on the committee that developed the 1995 NASPE content standards for physical education and has served as NASPE president. In 2009 she received a Service Award from the National Association of Kinesiology and Physical Education in Higher Education and was inducted into the NASPE Hall of Fame in 2013. She loves spending time with her family, dancing, reading, and, as she puts it, "having her dogs take her for a walk." Mary Lou Veal, EdD, began her teaching career as an elementary physical education teacher in Dallas, Texas. She taught physical education for 16 years in elementary, middle, and senior high schools and along the way she coached volleyball and track in addition to serving as a curriculum coordinator in Denton, Texas. Since receiving her EdD, she has taught in physical education teacher education programs at the University of Houston, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Veal's research has focused primarily on teachers' assessment perceptions and practices. She is the coauthor of three books and numerous articles and book chapters. Dr. Veal served as president of the North Carolina Alliance for Coaching, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and was a member of the 1995 NASPE Task Force to develop Teacher Education Standards. In her free time, Dr. Veal enjoys reading historical fiction, gardening, and genealogy. She serves as regent of the Captain William Lytle Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.