Browsing by Author "Saresvirta, Marleena"

The purpose of this bachelor's thesis is to research how elementary school teachers implement the assessment and evaluation in physical education and what are their views on the assessment and evaluation in physical education. The theory consists of assessment in elementary school, physical education and pupil assessment in physical education. Student assessment both in general and concerning physical education is presented by exploring among other things the Basic Education Act, the Basic Education Decree and the National Core Curriculum for Basic education (2004). The research was executed as a qualitative research using semi-structured interview as the interview method. The interviews were recorded and transcribed word-to-word afterwards. Three physical education teaching elementary school teachers from southern Finland were interviewed for the research. They all had taught physical education as many years as they had worked as teachers. The dataset was gathered at the turn of March and April 2016 by interviewing teachers in their own working environment. The analysis of the dataset was executed by using theory directive content analysis with which the dataset was divided into seven different upper categories. These upper categories divided again under two main categories which were the implementation of the assessment in physical education and the teachers' views on the assessment. The research showed that teachers implement the assessment in physical education quite similarly. However the assessment turned out to be somewhat insufficient and disorganized and the use of the assessment methods fairly one-sided. The research also revealed that all the teachers keep the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education (2004) as the premise of their assessment and evaluation, however emphasizing the pupils' attitude more than their exercising skills.