Physical education and Health education Evaluations

An effective education program must have certain criteria in order to be successful. These criteria include a well-designed and implemented curriculum, effective assessment practices to evaluate student learning, and cost effectiveness in the district. These are the components of triangulation. In order for a program to be successful in a health and physical education setting different domains of learning must be met and addressed. Students should be evaluated in all three cognitive domains in order for them to receive a complete education.
A well-designed and implemented health and physical education curriculum should be designed in such a way that students are educated on a broad range of topics that are appropriate for the age group or level of skill attainment for the group. This must include topics and skills that challenge and educate in all three of the domains of learning including the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning.
Effective assessment practices are designed in order to evaluate student learning. In the health education setting this form of assessment are more traditional and have normally included tests and papers. In the classroom setting it is a little easier for this type of assessment to occur. In the physical education setting it takes a little more effort from the teacher and students in order for student learning to be evaluated. Students should be evaluated in all three domains of learning including the cognitive, affective and psychomotor. In order to accomplish these students may be evaluated through the use of assignments in or outside of the classroom with homework or projects for the cognitive domain. The learning in the affective and psychomotor can be completed through the use of teacher checklists or skill tests.
As with most other things in life an effective education program must be worth the time and money. If the assessments that are being completed in the classroom are found to be either ineffective in evaluating student learning or simply take too much of the educators time or school districts money than the program must be reevaluated.