| 481 | Thursday, April 11, 2002 |
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| 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | San Diego Convention Center:Ballroom 6C |
| AAALF/Measurement and Evaluation Council |
| From Mars to Earth - Fitness Testing in the Real World |
| This session provides helpful, realistic strategies for administering fitness tests to large groups of students in a typical school setting. Administering a complete fitness test battery to a class of children can pose problems such as (a) insufficient space, time, staff, and equipment; (b) privacy (in the case of measuring body composition); and (c) motivation (in the case of performers at the lower end). Audience participation in components of the FITNESSGRAM test battery will be used to illustrate a variety of strategies that lead to an efficient testing environment that can be fun for children and minimize periods of inactivity. |
Keyword(s): assessment, measurement/evaluation, middle school issues
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| Speakers: Rhonda Kenny, David Rowe, Megan Guthrie and Dan Fesperman, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC |