Episode 33: Episode 33: The Importance of Assessment in Physical Education

A-Z Health and PE Presented by NYS AHPERD

Welcome to the NYS AHPERD A-Z Health And PE Podcast. This is one of three episodes where we have invited special guests and students from summer courses I teach at Canisius University. Students in this class entitled Authentic Assessment in Physical Education are graduate teacher professionals in the trenches or newly inducted health and physical educators. We have asked our special guest and my graduate students to review an article ahead of time to discuss accordingly.
The article we will be chatting about today is entitled:

“Assessment for Learning in Physical Education: Practical Tools and Strategies to Enhance Learning of Games” (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07303084.2021.1948464) published in JOPERD in 2021 by Drs. Chng and Lund
Our special guest for today’s episode is Dr. Jackie Lund.
Dr. Lund is an Emeritus Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at Georgia State University. She was the 2022 recipient of the Society for Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America’s Luther Halsey Gulick Award.

This award, the highest honor awarded by SHAPE America, is given in recognition of long and distinguished service to one or more of the professions represented in the association.

Dr. Lund is a former chair of the college’s Department of Kinesiology and Health and a Research Fellow and past-president of SHAPE America. She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, presented more than 200 sessions and written seven books, several of which have multiple editions. She has presented keynote sessions both nationally and internationally, and served as a Research Fellow for the Ministry of Education in Singapore and an external reviewer for physical education programs in the U.S. and abroad.

Dr. Lund was a member of the task force that wrote the first national standards for physical education, which were published in 1995. She also served as president of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) in 2006-2007 and was the NASPE representative to the former American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance’s Board of Governors from 2009-2012. Her work on assessment in physical education is widely used in teacher education programs and by K-12 physical education teachers.

Dr. Lund is widely considered among the premier scholars and experts in Standards-Based Curriculum and Assessment in K-12 Physical Education in both the U.S. and around the world.