Assessment
Student Learning
Game Performance Assessment Instrument (GPAI)
The GPAI is a good tool for teachers to use to observe and read game performance behaviours of their students. It consists of breaking the class up into pairs and each student receives a worksheet with the GPAI criteria for the particular skill being evaluated. Then, while one partner is playing the other records his/her partners game performance and behaviours. These behaviours consist of:
Each behaviour
is further broken down into: appropriate/inappropriate(Decision
making) and efficient/inefficient(skill execution). As the
one partner is playing, the other partner observes and checks the
appropriate columns of the skill behaviour.
Each student evaluating can also observe individual skills that the performer is performing as well. This is another benefit of the GPAI:
Teaching Instruction
In order to have
every student participating within your lesson, an effective tool
is to get those students who do not have gym strip, sick or
injured or who are not participating for other reasons to fill
out a "Time on Task Recording Sheet" for the lesson.
This is a very good resource to use as a teacher because it
supplies the teacher with adequate feedback about the lesson.
A time on task recording sheet is a system of observation in
which teachers receive feedback on (a) teacher talking (b) management/organization (c) student engagement. Another
useful tool to evaluate each lesson is to get those not
participating to fill out a lesson organization. It is
similar to the time on task recording sheet except that this
sheet deals with the organization of students, equipment, safety,
groups and space. It supplies feedback to the teacher as to
what went well as well as what could be changed in order to make
the lesson run smooth.
Time on Task Sheet