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Study Course Description

Assessment Methods in Adapted Physical Activities

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

LSPA_150

Branch of Science

Health sciences

ECTS

3.00

Target Audience

Pedagogy; Sports Trainer

LQF

Level 5

Study Type And Form

Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Inta Bula-Biteniece

Structure Unit Manager

Diāna Laipniece

Structural Unit

Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE)

Contacts

LSPA, Brīvības gatve 333, Riga, LV-1006

About Study Course

Objective

To provide knowledge on assessment objectives in APA. To teach assessment methods that are based on chronological age norms, criteria and performance. To provide knowledge on the interdisciplinary approach in assessment.

Preliminary Knowledge

General secondary education.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.1. To demonstrate comprehensive and sport-specific knowledge of basic and specialised facts, theories, patterns of special educational needs of students with regard to adapted sport education (ASE) (for example, to obtain information from family members using appropriate assessment tools), movement potential, physical capacity, methods for assessing physical load intensity; principles for the development of physical characteristics and assessment of the dynamics of movement skills; physical performance characteristics of the body in students with SENs under different external environmental conditions.

Skills

1.2. Application of different assessment approaches (holistic, normative, criteria and other assessment approaches), use of these skills in sports and health classes; to take responsibility and initiative through study and practical work, individually, in a team or collectively, by developing practical work. To determine the current level of capacity of students with SENs; to assess the level of adaptation for APA; to assess the level of support for APA; to assess the goals of individual achievements in the long and short term.

Competences

1.3. To determine indicators of mobility and physical capacity and compare them with criteria, norms; to assess the level of severity of functional limitations of the student with SENs; to use knowledge of anatomy and physiology in practice – by creating lesson abstracts for APA for school sports and health classes, etc.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
To prepare for seminars and test work on topics: 1. Assessment objectives in APA. 2. Assessment methods. 3. Normative tests. 4. Criteria-based tests. 5. Performance-based tests. 6. Interdisciplinary approach in assessment. To prepare for the exam – Assessment Methods in Adapted Physical Activities. Independent performance of practical work – preparation of theoretical justification, collection and compilation of data, their interpretation and drawing up of conclusions corresponding to the data obtained regarding the place of APA in special education.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Knowledge, skills and competences of students are assessed in six test works. Skills and competences of students are assessed in three l practical works – Normative tests. Criteria-based tests. Performance-based tests. Students master skills: to prepare a theoretical justification of practical work, to measure individually and collectively objective signs of functional limitations relating to movement games, to compare to literature data, to explain the causes of deviations from the norm and differences in measurements. At the end of the study course, a differentiated assessment is provided based on the sum of points obtained without an additional examination. To get a positive assessment for the study course, the total points should sum up to at least 4. Summative assessment of knowledge and competences in test works. All written test works must be passed. If a student is absent or does not pass a test work, the test work must be retaken and passed. For a student to have a successful final assessment, he/she must have successfully written all six of the intended test works. In laboratory work, students should fill the measurement protocol individually. Conclusions should be drawn on compliance of the results obtained with the standard, and they should be interpreted.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Lecture

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Assessment objectives in APA. Assessment methods.

Lecture

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Assessment objectives in APA. Assessment methods.

Class/Seminar

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Normative tests. Criteria-based tests.

Class/Seminar

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Normative tests. Criteria-based tests.

Lecture

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Performance-based tests.

Lecture

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Performance-based tests.

Class/Seminar

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Performance-based tests.

Class/Seminar

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Performance-based tests.

Class/Seminar

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Performance-based tests.

Class/Seminar

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Performance-based tests.

Class/Seminar

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2

Topics

Performance-based tests.

Lecture

Modality	Location	Contact hours
On site	Auditorium	2