Methods for Assessing Physical Fitness in Students with Special Needs

Abstract

The assessment of physical fitness at the beginning of the school year is essential in the physical education class since it allows the teacher to know the physical abilities of his students and the level of physical load applicable to consider the achievement of the objectives proposed in the curriculum. However, when a student has a special need, what action does the teacher take to assess equitably and truthfully said student? What methods can the teacher implement to be inclusive and provide the same opportunity to these students? The objective of this study was to compile various physical fitness assessment methods that can be adapted for application to students with special needs. The search strategy method was used within a systematized documentary review where the essential methodological aspect was the extraction of articles referring to the different evaluation methods for physical fitness, which represent the research data. In addition to this, the use of filters was considered for methodological aspects using keywords such as (physical fitness, special needs, evaluation), thus simplifying the data search process. In that same order, an evaluation of the results obtained was carried out where the relevance of the information contained was assessed along with the key aspects related to the topic and objective of this study.