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ASSESSMENT
As with any decision that we need to make, gathering information is essential. Whether you are going to coach volleyball or teach the game to learners in your physical education or camp program, you need to assess the students/athletes to make decisions on what skills or knowledge you as the instructor or coach need to cover. Technology tools are continually being created to make this part of the job easier. Below are some examples of items that we have found or used to make this task easier.
Google Forms
Google forms allows you to create a checklist, rubric, or tryout guide to quickly assess student skill or knowledge. Whether you have your students access an online rules quiz or use the form to assess their skill development, the form can be as easy or as complicated as you need. Scores can also be migrated to a Google Classroom so that you don't have to use your valuable time to type in scores by hand.
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Nearpod
A Nearpod presentation can offer you the ability to create an interactive lesson that students can either move through individually or that you can lead as a teacher. A Nearpod lesson can have interactive quizzes, virtual field trips, embedded videos and much more. Nearpod can be linked Google Classroom, Schoology, and Canvas. Once your students have completed the Nearpod lesson, reports can be viewed on activities and assessments that you embedded in the lesson.
Coach's Eye
Coach's Eye is a video analysis tool that can show students and athletes what you are seeing. Many times students or athletes may struggle to make corrections since they don't have the content knowledge that you, as the instructor or coach, have. With Coach's Eye you or another athlete can record a skill or performance then critique that performance by drawing on and annotating the video. Where this can be used for assessment is through peer assessment. A partner can record and then annotate the video based on a rubric of your creation. The video can then be sent to you through email or saved to an in-app video locker. The video provides evidence for both you and the student to ensure more valid scores in peer analysis and better feedback for improvement of the skill. For teachers with larger class sizes or large case loads, this option may make skill assessment more manageable.