Developing a sense of change

I have been working on a project for the last week to help assist the Physical Education teachers in developing a Journal for participation in sport.
This has been going since Term One and was developed using Google Forms, but there are some issues that we face with this. One of this being the ability to make changes to the form after it is submitted. Students take a long time to write anything and when the bell goes they are gone, work half finished. We needed a way for a student to save work and be able to go back and edit it.

The standard is AS90962.

90962

Participate actively in a variety of physical activities and explain factors that influence own participation

5 credits

Internal

The standard is available here http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/nqfdocs/ncea-resource/achievements/2014/as90962.pdf

AS90962: Participate actively in a variety of physical activities and explain factors that influence own participation

Updated March 2014. This document has been updated in its entirety to address new issues that have arisen from moderation.

Explain factors that influence own participation

Using ongoing reflection, student responses must provide an explanation of the most relevant factors that influence their own participation.

The explanation should include:

• what the factor is
• how and why the factor influences own participation
• specific examples of how the factor influences own participation in the chosen physical activity
• a range of factors.

There is no step up required for the explanation.

Participate actively

Students need to participate actively in a variety of physical activities over a period of time.

For Excellence, students must consistently show a high level of effort and engagement in participation. This must include students’ regular contributions to support others to be active and/or showing a sustained effort to improve. Refer to the exemplars for examples of how the practical evidence may be interpreted.

Collection of evidence

Teacher verification of students’ active participation in a variety of physical activities over a period of time is required, for example, over the whole year or at least one term. Required evidence should include observational notes, verified self or peer assessment and/or teacher recording sheets.

The teacher may consider validated self and peer observation sheets as additional evidence to support judgements.

Interpretation of evidence for Merit and Excellence

When interpreting the evidence collected, it should be noted that the step up between Merit and Excellence is on the consistency of the criteria for a high level of effort and engagement in participation.

Overall judgement

A holistic judgement should be made as to whether or not the student has participated actively/participated actively with a (consistently) high level of effort and engagement in a variety of physical activities, rather than quantitative marks such as 80% participation to achieve with Merit. 

Going through the standard, I find this

See further details in the curriculum statement http://www.tki.org.nz/r/health/curriculum/statement/toc_e.php

Although it seems that that is an essential part of the resource material for the subject. But if it is they really need to fix the site up.