Today each class had an end of unit exam. It was worth 100 points, and it was to test their knowledge on the particular unit of gym that they had been working on. Each teacher would rotate between the 4 sports they would use that half of the year. Those sports were soccer, football, field hockey, and lacrosse.
Each exam was usually consisting of true/false, matching, and multiple choice. The questions would only touch on maybe the first 3 areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy, which was Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application. These questions were easy, and for the most part it was an easy grade, provided the student actually tried to understand the rules and knowledge on each sporting unit.
On my first day of observation I found it odd that these students were going to have an exam and that the teachers were practically telling their students, that “this will be on the test”. One big question I had was, are they teaching to the test? Or were they testing their teachings? It was hard to see, but still to my surprise, there were still students who were getting 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s on these tests.
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