The Evaluation of Physical Education Teachers’ Performance Assessment System

The purpose of this study was to evaluate physical education teachers' performance assessment system in order to remove some of the shortcomings. For this purpose, 310 P.E. teachers were selected by random cluster sampling, and their performance assessment forms were investigated. In order to study the reliability of assessment factors, assessment error, and the relationship among assessment factors and to compare differences among the teachers, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney U and Pearson Correlation tests at P?0.05 were used. The results indicated that the reliability of P.E. teachers’ assessment factors was 0.16 for two main factors (performance & process factors) which was very weak. The errors of performance assessment showed that the examiners made softness and leniency errors. There was a significant correlation between performance and process factors (r = 0.11, P?0.05), however, the correlation was not too sufficient to omit one of the factors. The correlation between final score of P.E. teachers' performance assessment and performance and process factors were 0.56 and 0.85 respectively, which were significant (P?0.01). This significance also indicates that each assessment factor evaluates the teachers properly. The correlation between the P.E. teachers' assessment scores, and level of encouragement and improvement were 0.036 and 0.028 respectively, which were not significant. The P.E. teachers also were not encouraged and improved for the scores they achieved. There was no significant difference in scores of performance assessment between male and female P.E. Teachers, and they were equally encouraged and improved. The difference in the scores of performance assessment between junior-high and high schools was significant, and junior-high school teachers received higher grades. However, there was no significant difference between these two groups in encouragement and improvement factors