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Assessing Physical Literacy In Health And Physical Education, Lisa Young, Justen O’Connor, Laura Alfrey, Dawn Penney
Assessing Physical Literacy In Health And Physical Education, Lisa Young, Justen O’Connor, Laura Alfrey, Dawn Penney
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
© 2020 Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. This paper utilises Bernstein's theorising of curriculum and pedagogical relations to analyse Physical Literacy (PL) assessment with implications for the field of Health and/Physical Education (H/PE). It acknowledges the significance of assessment for what knowledge and skills are valued in PL and in turn, H/PE. PL takes different forms and is assessed in a range of ways. Bernstein's concepts of classification and framing are used to analyse six PL assessment tools identified through a systematic review of literature. Findings suggest that current PL assessment tools mainly feature strong classification and …
What Is Complexity? Grammatical Issues In Assignment Prompts, Anne Thwaite, Fiona Budgen, Janet Hunter, Kuki Singh
What Is Complexity? Grammatical Issues In Assignment Prompts, Anne Thwaite, Fiona Budgen, Janet Hunter, Kuki Singh
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Student performance on assignments is of growing international concern. Some of the difficulties that students have with crafting their university assignments are due to the demonstrated complexity of academic writing in different text types. Previous work in this area has mostly examined complexity at the sentence and clause level; however, more recent studies indicate that complexity at the level of the group or phrase, in particular the nominal group, may cause more of a problem for students. In addressing this issue, we take a descriptive approach to examining a corpus of assignment instructions from a Bachelor of Education program at …