Fitness Testing

PACER TEST

Students will run the pacer 5x per trimester to help measure their cardiovascular fitness level. Here is what the PACER Test looks like:

PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS TESTING

Students will complete formative pre-fitness testing at the start of the trimester and then set 'SMART' goals for 5 Fitness Tests. Towards the end of the trimester students will take a summative fitness test to measure overall physical fitness levels. Students will test in the mile run, flex arm hang or pull ups, sit-ups or plank hold, push ups and wall sit. Here is what the tests look like:

GRADING FITNESS TESTS

Each students personal fitness level is a very important part of the curriculum and as such fitness testing is worth 25% of the students overall grade. A rubric for each of the tests is attached below. Please note that the fitness rubric has been adjusted to allow all students to have some level of success, regardless of current fitness level. It is the hope of the Jefferson PE department that over the course of the trimester all students will see improvement in their personal fitness and that scores in the above tests will improve from the beginning to the end of the trimester. The fitness rubrics for both PACER and Fitness testing are below.

Fitness testing rubric