Towards the development of a workbook in Fitness Testing and Basic Exercise Programming

This study aimed to develop a workbook in Fitness Testing and Basic Exercise Programming for students of sports track. Descriptive in nature, the study particularly employed research and development design. The workbook was evaluated in terms of its objectives, format, content, language, and usability by seven (7) pool of experts in the field of physical education, sports, and human movement science. The obtained data were treated statistically using mean and standard deviation. Comments and suggestions were also obtained to describe further its content validity. The findings revealed that the topics in Fitness Testing and Basic Exercise Programming can be developed into a workbook where experts were satisfied in terms of its objectives, format, content, language, and usability. The workbook can be useful to the students and teachers of Sports Track. Based on the findings, the researchers arrived at different recommendations such as determination of construct validity, content validity index, review of the exercises in the workbook by educational assessment experts, readability test, and further revisions through inclusion of up-to-date researches.

Keywords –instructional materials development, Physical Education, sports track, worktext.