Author(s)

Zhanyi Ling

Corresponding Author

Zhanyi Ling

ABSTRACT

The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) has designed evaluation tools which aim to promote the professional development of physical teachers. This set of evaluation tools is designed in accordance with the relevant evaluation principles, and has special value for the education programs of physical teachers and even headmasters from preschools to high schools, district curricula experts, and physical teachers of universities and colleges. From the aspect of operating process, this set of evaluation tools includes the stages of self-assessment, external assessment, result processing, and supervising the improvement; from the aspect of indicator system, it is composed of 67 indicators in five dimensions of instruction, evidence of student learning, management/organization, learning climate and professionalism. This set of evaluation tools enlightens us that in terms of the evaluation for the professional development of physical teacher, it is necessary to follow the idea of negotiated evaluation, confirm the orientation of pedagogical assessment and design a complete and systematic indicator system.

KEYWORDS

Association for sport and physical education, Evaluation tool for the professional development of physical teachers, Evaluation principle, Operation procedure, Indicator system