Blending assessment into instruction: practical applications and meaningful results; Afraid of losing teaching time by conducting frequent assessments? Here's a way to teach and assess at the same time.

The standards and benchmarks locate forth by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE, 1995) and the Surgeon General's report upon physical activity and health (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 1996) have placed authentic assessment at the center of national efforts to improve the processe for demonstrating scholar learning. These landmark publications also emphasized the importance of making physical activity an integral part of physical education and of daily living. Together, they form an important foundation for physical education professionals in boundarys of what to assess and in what way to go about it. Since engagement in