Identify and Explain the Current Situation of Evaluating the Physical Education Curriculum of the Elementary School, Presenting the Desired Model and validating it

Considering the importance of curriculum evaluation, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying and explaining the current situation of evaluation patterns in the elementary period physical education curriculum: Presenting the desired model and its validation.

The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The research population, in addition to the documents and texts of evaluation the physical education curriculum, in both qualitative and quantitative sections were elementary period physical education curriculum experts in Lorestan province in the 2020 year, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 10 people of them were selected as a sample by purposive sampling method. Data were collected by methods of taking noting, semi-structured interview and researcher-made questionnaires, which the validity of the interview was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was obtained by the agreement coefficient method between the two coders 0.79 and the content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts opinion and its reliability was obtained by Cronbach's alpha method 0.86. Data were analyzed by methods of coding, Friedman ranking, Kendall agreement coefficient, and exploratory factor analysis in SPSS and Smart PLS software.

The coding results showed that the evaluation pattern of the elementary period physical education curriculum has 85 indicators and 9 categories including purpose (21 indicators), content (11 indicators), learning resources (10 indicators), learning activities (7 indicators), implementation method (12 indicators),