Department of Education officials have advised against the use of bleep tests to test fitness levels in schools.
Bleep tests involve students running between two fixed points, measuring a certain amount of metres , under a time limit. They are commonly used in both primary and secondary schools as part of current PE curriculums.
The Department issued a release yesterday on the use of standardised bleep tests in education. They were particularly critical of its use in primary schools, although they also argued that assessing the fastest or strongest pupils in secondary school was demoralising for those with lower levels of overall fitness.
