FITescola - Portuguese best practice

Fast facts

• The FITescola® program is one of the references and mandatory areas of Physical Education (PE) which provides a repository of indicators and dynamic trajectories of the items under analysis. 

• There is no mandatory time point for the assessment of the physical fitness tests. The platform provides 5 evaluation “moments” (Baseline 1st Period / at the end of 1st period / Intermedium Assessment 2nd Period / at the end 2nd period / Final assessment 3rd period). Therefore, the system is flexible, and teachers can enter data at any time. 

• Approximately 120 000 students aged 10-18 y are inserted annually into the database of the platform, involving 1600 teachers and 600 schools. 

• There are ~268 248 students with entries registered on the platform and 6, 250, 221 recorded assessments included in the database.