FITNESSGRAM® Test Administration Manual - 3rd Edition Book (128 pages)
Imagine your to-do list for your fitness education program: Find a fair and accurate way to test students and assess their fitness levels Figure out an easy way to conduct tests and record the results Set meaningful goals that are individualized to the needs of each student Devise individualized programs to help students make progress toward their goals Help students understand the relationship between regular physical activity and health and fitness Come up with ways to involve and motivate students to devise their own physical activity plans and stick with them Somehow achieve the ultimate goal--Get students to do more than be physically active in class A<>A-- teach them what it means to be a physically active person and to make healthy behaviors and choices a lifelong habit Does this list sound accurate, yet daunting? Then read on, because FITNESSGRAM will enable you to do all of these things! Here's how FITNESSGRAM can help you meet your goals. The FITNESSGRAM Test Administration Manual, second edition, enable you to do quality fitness assessments and much more. FITNESSGRAM also helps students better understand the components of health-related fitness and identify individualized approaches to improve their physical activity habits. Some tests place more emphasis on skill- or sport-related fitness and measure students according to norms A<>A-- that is, they compare students to other students. This leads many children who are actually healthy to perceive themselves as unfit, while others who practice unhealthy behaviors may still achieve good scores and mistakenly think they're fit. FITNESSGRAM, on the other hand, compares scores to carefully researched and developed health standards, rather than to national averages. By using these criterion-referenced standards, called Healthy Fitness Zones, a test administrator knows without a doubt whether a child meets the minimum recommendation for being fit on each test item. And because FITNESSGRAM focuses on physical fitness, instead of performance of specific skills, the results aren't skewed by individual differences in athletic ability. The FITNESSGRAM Test Administration Manual, second edition, is one of the two key components of FITNESSGRAM (the other is the powerful FITNESSGRAM 6.0 software). The manual describes the benefits of fitness education and fitness testing; shows you how to conduct the fitness test to assess students' cardio respiratory endurance, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance