Fitness Testing in Physical Education: Helpful or Harmful?
By Dr Zali Yager The Beep test. Or the Bleep Test. That tortuous activity that you did in PE each year to ‘test your fitness’ is the one thing that so many people remember about physical education (and that so many would rather forget!). Fitness testing is one of those things that became popular in physical education [PE] as it evolved from its military roots, and has stuck. Most Australian secondary schools still do fitness testing at least once or twice in their program, de