Adapted PE
Category: Assessment

I am a licensed adapted physical education teacher and was asked by the special education director to do a gross motor skills assessment on one of the students at theschool. I chose the TGMD 2 but I have forgotten how to score the subtests. Is it a scale of 1-5 or a scale of 1-3? Is 1 the lowest and 5 the highest or the other way around?

I'm not sure to what instrument you're referring to with the scoring scales of 1-3 or 1-5. You may be mistaking another instrument for the TGMD-2. Scoring for the TGMD-2 is a 0 or 1 per each skill's criteria for both the locomotor and object control sub-tests.

Each skill has between three and five critical elements, but the score is a raw score and not on a scale. The raw scores need to be converted to another type of score for interpreting results. Is the examiner's manual available to help you? You will also need it to use the Appendices for checking the norms and percentiles.

Last modified date: 9/12/2010

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