Assessment pt. 2

Question 1

What are the (3) Strategies/Approaches to Assessment and Instruction?

Answer 1

1) Bottom-Up (ex. TGMD-2)
2) Top-Down (ex. APA)
3) Ecological Task Analysis (ETA)

Question 2

Which strategy provides a broad foundation of fundamental skills during early years?

Answer 2

Bottom-Up strategy

Question 3

Which strategy breaks skill down into smaller parts to work on one at a time?

Answer 3

Bottom-Up strategy

Question 4

The primary goal of the Bottom-Up strategy is to help the individual achieve success in…(2)

Answer 4

1) movement skill foundations

2) basic skills

Question 5

What are the advantages of the Bottom-Up strategy? (2)

Answer 5

1) Works at building a solid foundation to facilitate the learning of future skills
2) Experience success at each step

Question 6

What are the disadvantages of the Bottom-Up Strategy? (2)

Answer 6

1) Time consuming

2) *exclusive emphasis on movement skill foundations

Question 7

Which is the task specific strategy?

Answer 7

Top-Down

Question 8

The Top-Down Approach combines…(2)

Answer 8

1) Adapted PE
- modifications or adaptations that allow students to participate in functional, age appropriate PA as fully as possible.

2) Developmental PE
- improve actual skills of performer

Question 9

What are the advantages of the Top-Down Strategy? (2)

Answer 9

1) considers the *Ultimate Goal (functional movement skill)

2) Takes less time

Question 10

What are the disadvantages of the Top-Down Strategy?

2

Answer 10

1) Specific functional movement skill may be beyond the capabilities of the student
2) Frustration/failure

Question 11

What is the Ecological Task Analysis (ETA)?

Answer 11

Is a method of assessment and instruction

Question 12

ETA suggests that there are (3) main factors that influence movement performance. What are they?

Answer 12

1) Task Goal
- what the performer is trying to do

2) environmental conditions
- performer is subjected to or has access to

3) Performer Characteristics
- performer’s past experiences, intention, affect, physical abilities)

Question 13

What is the goal of ETA?

Answer 13

to understand what a person can do in a particular *context

Question 14

Proponents of ETA believe that a _______ movement form does not exist.

Answer 14

Best

• Example: one baseball pitcher may throw differently from another yet they both achieve the same result
• Individuals will use their own optimal movements

Question 15

Explain ETA & Affordance.

Answer 15

What an environment offers to a person in terms of action.

• Ex. children run in a gymnasium without being told because the environment affords* it.

Question 16

ETA motor skills based on Functional Task Goals:

*Think LOOP

Answer 16

• Locomotion (get from point A to point B)
• Object Manipulation
  (Use objects in activities)
• Object Propulsion & Reception (moving objects towards/away from the body)
• Postural Maintenance & Orientation (position of the body)

Question 17

How to use ETA to Assess Motor Skills:

(3) step process:

Answer 17

1) Establish Task Goal to be Assessed
- what is to be accomplished

2) Allow choices for movement solutions

3) Manipulate Variables
- affordances and constraints (conditions)

Question 18

Benefits of using ETA to assess Motor Skills:

Answer 18

• Encourages uniqueness

- Step toward inclusion

Question 19

According to ETA motor development is a result of ________ (movement problems are resolved, new movements discovered, and task goals are achieved)

Answer 19

experience