Set individualized goals for students Give students responsibility for managing and recording their own activities
Help students understand the value of physical activity and make healthy behaviors and choices a lifelong habit
This fully updated manual now includes a DVD with video clips to help teachers administer the FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM tests. In doing so, teachers impart the value of physical activity and guide students in making fitness a lifelong habit.
New to the Third Edition
DVD features video clips showing all test protocols for the FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM test, including common errors and corrections.
DVD includes reproducible forms, charts, certificates, and reports that teachers need to conduct the test, record the results, and communicate to administrators, students, and parents.
Manual is highlighted with new illustrations and photos, and an attractive, reader-friendly design makes it easy to use.
The FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM Test Administration Manual, Third Edition, features an increased emphasis on ACTIVITYGRAM, which is the only computerized physical activity management tool available for use with schoolchildren.
More about the Test Administration Manual
Part I introduces teachers to the program components and the mission, goals, and philosophy behind the program. It provides information on fitness education and assessment guidelines, detailing the assessment process step by step. It also explores ways to promote physical education, and it examines guidelines and provides promotion models.
Part II focuses on various aspects of FITNESSGRAM. It takes teachers through test administration issues, including safe administration of the program, considerations for special populations, and administration to primary grades. It provides tests for aerobic capacity; details how to determine body composition through skinfold measurements, body mass index, and other methods; and shows how to test for muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility. It also answers physical activity questions related to FITNESSGRAM and guides teachers in interpreting FITNESSGRAM results.
Part III provides an assessment module for ACTIVITYGRAM, outlining how to administer the program and how to interpret the results and give feedback to students. Four appendixes provide guidelines on where to find testing equipment and how to use it, answers to frequently asked questions, and health-related fitness charts and copy masters of all 17 forms and reports.
FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM Test Administration Manual, Third Edition, is time tested, research based, and highly practical even more so now with its new DVD component. It s sure to help teachers assess students fitness and motivate them to take responsibility to adopt and maintain healthy habits throughout their lives.
More about FITNESSGRAM and ACTIVITYGRAM
FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM is an integrated fitness and activity assessment program that can greatly enhance the effectiveness of school-based physical education programs. The program consists of software, a test manual with DVD, and related ancillaries, including The Cooper Institute's FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM Reference Guide. It is designed to work in conjunction with Physical Best, a program of curriculum resources and training certifications for health-related fitness education developed by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) and now run by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE).
FITNESSGRAM is recommended by NASPE and is the first health-related fitness test to use criterion-referenced standards. This means that test scores are compared to research-based health standards rather than to national averages. FITNESSGRAM has been widely used for two decades and is guided by a distinguished scientific advisory board.
Through FITNESSGRAM and ACTIVITYGRAM, teachers will be able to accurately assess students fitness levels, set goals for the students based on those assessments, and teach students how to manage and record their own activities. Teachers can easily track and report students progress, motivate students to stick with their activity programs, and perhaps best of all teach them to make healthy choices a lifelong habit.
These unique features set the FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM program apart from other test batteries for youth:
FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM allows teachers to produce individual as well as group fitness and activity reports for students. The reports are generated using complex algorithms that take into account children s results on various fitness tests as well as estimates of their current activity level. This personalized feedback provides students and parents with more meaningful information than a simple listing of fitness scores. The group reports can help teachers track data over time to document their efforts to promote activity and fitness in their curriculum.
FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM uses criterion-referenced standards to evaluate students on each dimension of fitness and on measures of physical activity. These standards are age and gender specific and are based on how fit and active children need to be for good health. The use of criterion-referenced standards is a critical distinction, because this type of feedback helps to minimize comparisons among children and allows teachers to provide personalized information to each child about their health-related fitness. Feedback in FITNESSGRAM is targeted to personal fitness for health rather than to goals based on performance. FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM encourages student involvement in physical education. Software allows students to enter personal data and print out their own reports. The reports provide personalized feedback that encourages children to establish regular patterns of physical activity. The program also encourages the use of self-testing or peer testing to promote self-monitoring skills needed for lifetime participation in physical activity.
