ABSTRACT
Tyrese Howard is a general physical education teacher at an urban middle school in Cleveland, Ohio. In using peer assessments, Tyrese allows each student or group of students to assess peers' performance. He knows that by doing this his students will develop their skills to evaluate motor performances and gain a sense of trust and responsibility in giving and receiving feedback. Tyrese's first-period class comprises a culturally and ethnically diverse group of students, including one student with a disability, Anthony. Anthony has a learning disability concomitant with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and hyperactivity and has been included in this class since the beginning of the school year. In using peer assessment within this tennis unit, Tyrese introduced the students to proper handgrips for executing forehand and backhand ground strokes. Tyrese reviews the peer assessment sheets and discovers that his students did a good job of providing feedback to their peer partners and did so with accuracy and appropriateness.
