School Improvement in Maryland

Sample Assessments: Each sample assessment item provides a way of measuring student work or performance. Rubrics provide teachers with a means of describing the quality of student work or performance. These are only sample items and many local school systems have developed their own assessments linked to their physical education curriculum.

Standard 1.0 Skillfulness

Topic C. Skill Themes

Indicator 1. Analyze strategies to solve tactical game problems.

Objective b. Compare and choose movement strategies that add to student success during participation in net/wall, invasion, striking/fielding, and target activities.

Performance Assessment (PA) Item

Exit Outcome: Chooses and applies movement strategies for student success during game play.

Choose and Apply Movement Strategies Rubric

Criteria for Competence:

Essential elements for choose and apply movement strategies:

  • Transitions smoothly between defense and offense movements using defending strategies such as in group/team defense covering a space or area of the field or court
  • Transitions smoothly between defense and offense movements using defending strategies such as in group/team defense using person to person defending
  • Transitions smoothly between defense and offense movements using scoring strategies such as in group/team offense spreading out with intent to create a passing lane for teammates
  • Transitions smoothly between defense and offense movements using scoring strategies such as in group/team offense striking or hitting to an open/unguarded space or area of the field or court.
Level Level Description Criteria
4 Proficient/Consistently Evident Demonstrates all of the essential elements in authentic activities
3 Competent/Evident Demonstrates 3 of the essential elements in authentic activities
2 Progressing/Developing Demonstrates 2 of the essential elements in authentic activities
1 Emerging Demonstrates less than 2 of the essential elements in authentic activities
NA Not Assessed Did not complete task
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