Preparing Beginning Teachers to Analyze and Correct Motor Skill Performances

~ Matthew Cummiskey~ Nicole AlatiWest Chester University

Fact Finding• NASPE/NCATE Standard 1.5• 1.5 Analyze and correct critical elements of motor

skills and performance concepts.

• What are you doing at your schools?

History of Skill Analysis at WCU• Motor Development (KIN 186)• Classify K-12 student level of motor development• Project - teach, record and analyze a K-12 performance

(one learner)• Not comprehensive enough to meet NCATE standard on

its own• TCs have not taken skill courses yet

• Activity classes• Analyze a demonstration by instructor that may/may not

include errors• Classes: Contemporary, Dance/Gymnastics, Fitness &

Wellness, Invasion, Net/Wall• Not systematic

Skill Analysis Assessment• Steps at WCU• Selected courses where skill analysis would be conducted• Selected skills TCs were to analyze in consultation with

instructor• Recruited video participants• Shot video using a pocket video camera (Kodak Zi8)• All participants did the same skill several times. For

example, each participant completed 5 frisbee forehands and so on.

• Selected skill executions to be included• Edited videos to create final products

Final Product Videos• Gymnastics• Self-produced• Participant – undergraduate gymnastics team member

• Fitness Wellness• Professionally produced• Participant - adults

• Invasion Games• Self-produced• Participants – middle school students

• Net/Wall Games• Self-produced• Participants – middle school students

Assessment Procedures• Watch video segment three times, each followed

by a 10-second title screen.• If skill was performed correctly, indicate so. If not,

must indicate what cues were performed incorrectly. • Answers may only come from cues presented in class• Cues not provided to TCs, had to know them • Source of DEBATE!!

• Instrument• Score incorporated into final grade (10%)

NCATE Results• Spring and Fall 2011 data• Submitted to NCATE 3/15/2012

Intervention• Assessment and Tech (KIN 347)• TCs create psychomotor assessments and then use them

in the gym with their peers.

• Skill courses• Faculty create “practice” videos exactly same as test

video except instructor and TCs process/debrief results afterwards• Instructor “quizzes” TCs by demonstrating skills

incorrectly.

• Motor development• Embed more skill analysis practice into motor

development, however this course is typically taken before the skill classes

Thanks for coming

• Matthew Cummiskey

• mcummiskey@wcupa.edu

• Nicole Alati• NA665258@wcupa.

edu

• Materials available at:• http://thenewPE.com