Assessment

Social/Affective
*Participation: 50%

Attendance
Proper strip
Working well with others
Positive attitude towards learning

*Participation will be marked daily. A mark will be given out of 4 marks. One mark will taken away for poor attitude, no strip, and not be cooperative with others. A class missed without permission will be zero out of four.

Psychomotor
Skill Performance: 20%

*Game Performance Assessment Inventory (GPAI).
Students will utilize this tool during initial lessons to evaluate performance.

Skill Improvement: 15%

(GPAI)
Students will make use of this tool again at the end of the unit, to observe improvements and strengths and weaknesses.

* GPAI example can be seen at the bottom of the page.

Cognitive
Knowledge of Concepts: 15%

Written test (understanding of basic etiquette, general rules, basic strategy and body movements for the delivery)

Written Test Example:

1) Name three key points to the curling delivery.
2) What is a guard and its purpose?
3) How many people play on each team and what are their jobs?
4) How are points awarded?
5) How many ends do you play?
6) What is the order of play?
7) Describe the principles behind an in-turn?
8) Explain what is the inside foot when sweeping?

*GPAI (Game Performance Assessment Instrument): Modified for Curling

This instrument is a tool for teachers to measure development among his/her students. Teachers can delegate this tool to other students so one can assess another. It is a good tool to help students understand what they need to improve on, instead of verbal feedback, the students now have literature to assess their performance. GPAI is two fold, in that a student can be assessed and learn to assess peers. For example, in a curling activity, partners share responsibilities while one performs and the other assesses the performance. The GPAI allows a student/teacher to assess one's performance, behavior, and individual skills.

To assess performance, including behavior-specific skills, a student searches for:

Decision Making (Weight Judgment):

This refers to the ability of the thrower to decide how much push off should be applied to different shot types.
Depends on how much force or weight is applied to a stone (on ice) and/or bean bag, tennis ball, or scooter board (in the gym).

Skill Execution:

This refers to off-the-stone movements, which are movements conducted while sweeping (on ice and in the gym). Key aspects of this movement includes technique (arm and feet position), grip, communication, and effective lateral movements.
This also refers to on-the-stone skills, which is throwing the stone. The student must pay particular attention to grip, balance, turn, consistent backswing and forward extension, and weight transfer.

Placement:

This refers to the result of the throw. Where the rock is placed within play and whether or not it was effective or not.

There are four areas (boxes) under each category. This allows the performer to be assessed on 8 trials, 4 for on-the-stone skills and 4 for off-the-stone movements. The observer will assess 4 throws (rate decision making, skill execution, and placement according to above criteria) and will need to assess off-the-stone movements (rate skill execution), therefore must observe 4 different sweeping trials. The GPAI should look like this:

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