Abstract
This report is designed to support health and physical education (HPE) teaching in primary classrooms. It describes student responses to a selection of tasks from assessment of the HPE learning area carried out by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in 2017.
The document has four parts. Part one introduces NMSSA and the NMSSA HPE assessment. Part two looks at a selection of tasks and student responses focused on critical thinking about health-related issues. Part three focusses on student skills in movement related to two physical activity tasks. Part four discusses students understandings of well-being and examines an aspect of numeracy, and an aspect of literacy as demonstrated in two tasks.
The document has four parts. Part one introduces NMSSA and the NMSSA HPE assessment. Part two looks at a selection of tasks and student responses focused on critical thinking about health-related issues. Part three focusses on student skills in movement related to two physical activity tasks. Part four discusses students understandings of well-being and examines an aspect of numeracy, and an aspect of literacy as demonstrated in two tasks.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | New Zealand |
| Publisher | Ministry of Education New Zealand |
| Commissioning body | Ministry of Education |
| Number of pages | 68 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-927286-46-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |