Jacalyn Lund

Jacalyn Lund is an Associate Professor and Coordinator for the Graduate Program in Physical Education Teacher Education at Georgia State University. An educator for 38 years--after teaching in Colorado secondary schools for 16 years--she completed her doctoral degree at The Ohio State University. Other university teaching appointments have been with the University of Louisville and Ball State University.Currently, she is an adjudicator for NASPE/NCATE, Editor of the NASPE Assessment Series, and...See more

Jacalyn Lund is an Associate Professor and Coordinator for the Graduate Program in Physical Education Teacher Education at Georgia State University. An educator for 38 years--after teaching in Colorado secondary schools for 16 years--she completed her doctoral degree at The Ohio State University. Other university teaching appointments have been with the University of Louisville and Ball State University.Currently, she is an adjudicator for NASPE/NCATE, Editor of the NASPE Assessment Series, and Past-President of NASPE. A member of the team that wrote the 1995 standards, she helped author Moving into the Future: National Standards for Physical Education. Professor Lund has conducted workshops and made more than 100 presentations at the state, district, national, and international levels, including an invited presentation at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, Korea. Current research interests involve assessment practices and curriculum development in physical education. She has published numerous articles on rubrics and assessment, including a book co-authored with Mary Fortman Kirk titled Performance-Based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education. Professor Lund has chaired committees to develop assessments for elementary and middle school physical education content standards for the state of Indiana as well as the committee to develop the Georgia Physical Education Standards. Her favorite pastimes include spending time with her husband, Bill; sons, Jeff and Nicholas; dancing; and obedience-training dogs. See less