Student-led Play Days: Incorporating Student Assessment
End-of-year student play days are frequently a tradition that provides elementary students an opportunity to be active in a fun, festive environment. Physical educators can use play days as a time to authentically assess their students while the students are enjoying the activities. Those planned by...
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Published in | Strategies (Reston, Va.) Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 15 - 20 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Reston
Taylor & Francis Group
01.01.2004
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | End-of-year student play days are frequently a tradition that provides elementary students an opportunity to be active in a fun, festive environment. Physical educators can use play days as a time to authentically assess their students while the students are enjoying the activities. Those planned by the students themselves have been found to be more successful. This article describes how a successful student-led play day, created and led by 5th grade students, was used to assess students based on the national and Wyoming Content Standards. (Contains 7 tables.) |
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ISSN: | 0892-4562 2168-3778 |
DOI: | 10.1080/08924562.2004.10591080 |