Departmental Learning Goals and Objectives
In addition to the School of Education goals, the Department
of Physical Education and Kinesiology goals reflect a commitment
to:
| Goal I:
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Providing our majors
with a well-structured set of curricular and
co-curricular experiences as well as mentorship to
derive a sound education related to the
profession/discipline of physical education/kinesiology.
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| Objective 1: |
Students will demonstrate
acquisition of a comprehensive knowledge base in
physical education/kinesiological concepts, issues,
facts, and theories from biological/physical,
behavioral, socio-cultural, and humanistic perspectives.
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Assessment: |
A grade of C or better in
all physical education courses taken to satisfy
graduation requirements.
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Assessment: |
Successful peer teaching
(conducted in teaching technique and curriculum
development courses).
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Assessment: |
Department/program surveys
that all graduating students will complete; focus groups
for graduating students designed to collect information
about their perceptions of our program. Certain
questions will be specific to student opinions on what
they believe they have learned and if they believe they
are prepared to effectively teach physical education.
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| Objective 2: |
Students will
demonstrate movement skill proficiency in a broad
variety of movement and fitness activities and
attainment of health fitness standards, both at a level
necessary to effectively teach and model a variety of
motor skills and health fitness.
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Assessment: |
A grade of C or better in
all required and elected professional activity courses
(meeting skill proficiency and health fitness standards
will be required in order to achieve a minimal grade of
C). |
| Goal II:
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Preparing our majors to apply critical thinking skills via
writing, reading, oral communication, quantitative and
qualitative reasoning, and information management in areas
related to the profession/discipline of physical
education/kinesiology.
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| Objective 1: |
Students will be able to
identify, evaluate/research, and develop a solution
to/discuss the findings of a problem area/research topic
relevant to the profession/discipline of physical
education/kinesiology. In addition, students will be
able to present their work via a combination of oral,
written, and technological mediums.
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Assessment: |
Development and
presentation of a culminating project in PED 490: Senior
Seminar.
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| Objective 2: |
Students will
be able to analyze specified motor skills, identify
common movement errors, and prescribe corrective
measures to address common movement errors.
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Assessment: |
Video analysis and
assessment of specified motor skills in the teaching
techniques of physical education courses and
Kinesiology.
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Assessment: |
Movement analysis
assignment in Kinesiology.
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| Objective 3: |
Students will
be able to develop age-appropriate instructional
programs for the assessment and teaching/development of
motor skills and health fitness.
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Assessment: |
Lesson plan, unit plan, and
curriculum development in techniques of teaching
physical education and curriculum development courses.
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| Objective 4: |
Students will
be able to apply technology in information management,
research, assessment, and communication as it relates to
the profession/discipline of physical education and
kinesiology.
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Assessment: |
Development and
presentation of a culminating project in PED 490: Senior
Seminar.
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Assessment: |
Data collection and
analysis assignment in Measurement and Evaluation.
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Assessment: |
Movement analysis
assignment in Kinesiology.
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Assessment: |
Specified laboratory
assignments in Physiology of Exercise and Motor Learning
(computer operated data acquisition equipment; computer
statistical analysis and data presentation). |
| Goal III:
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Modeling and encouraging professionalism (i.e. professional
conduct and ethics, professional organization
affiliation/participation, university/community service) to our
students in an effort to foster the development of this
characteristic in our students.
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| Objective 1: |
Each student, upon
graduation, will be an active member of a professional
organization related to his or her specific interests in
the physical education profession and will demonstrate a
specified participation in such organizations.
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Assessment: |
Documentation (student
file) of active membership in an appropriate local,
state, and/or national organization related to physical
education and/or coaching.
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Assessment: |
Documentation of attendance
to at least one state, or national meeting and/or
documentation of participation in an event sponsored by
a local, state, or national organization.
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| Objective 2: |
Faculty will
model designated qualities of professionalism that will
be taught to and discussed with students.
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Assessment: |
Department/program surveys
that all graduating students will complete; focus groups
for graduating students designed to collect information
about their perceptions of our program and faculty.
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| Objective 3: |
The department
will develop and support a student organization for our
majors that will be linked to other professionally
related local, state, and/or national organizations.
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Assessment: |
Relevant documentation
(i.e., meeting minutes, membership and attendance
records) that indicate the overall activity of the
organization. |
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