The alternative assessment approach to the discipline of physical education within the Moldova State University

Abstract

The recent changes produced in society, generated by the transition from the industrial period to that of informati-on and communication technologies, led to essential changes in the teaching-learning-evaluation process at the level of the entire university educational system. These transformations directly influenced the discipline of physical edu-cation in higher education institutions, forcing the specialists in the field to search for new solutions that will contri-bute to increasing the effectiveness of the training process of the specific skills in the discipline in correlation with the professional/specialist ones. The design of the disciplinary curriculum for the discipline of Physical Education, a new flexible concept, which offers the student the opportunity to individually choose the form/how to practice activities for the training/development of specific skills, requires new approaches regarding assessment. The physical educati-on discipline assessment of students practicing physical education and sports activities individually or in sports asso-ciations, outside the USM (form/way of practicing motor activities provided by the disciplinary curriculum), must be oriented towards a multidimensional approach and carried out through alternative methods. This paper proposes an alternative assessment approach to the Physical Education discipline, by applying the portfolio method for students practicing independent sports tests, other than those offered by the USM, which can fully ensure the training of the specific skills of the discipline in other learning contexts.