Article: Alternative assessment for physical education.

For more than a decade, widespread concern about the effectiveness of American schools has led to calls for educational reform and greater accountability. At the heart of the most recent wave of educational reform is the identification of learner outcomes, framed in the context of "standards" which define what students should know and be able to do. Furthermore, a cornerstone of the educational reform movement today is assessment. Assessment not only for the purposes of providing indices of accountability, but assessment that is inextricably linked to and performed as an integral part of the instructional process. In 1995 the National Association for Sport and Physical ...

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