The Adapted Physical Education Assessment Scale-II (APEAS II) is the revision of a test used for over 25 years in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). It was developed after the passage of PL 94-142—the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (now IDEA ’07).

The purpose was to establish a test that could be used to determine if a student’s motor performance was so far off the norm that he or she required special programming—modified, specially designed or adapted physical education. While the test is based on scores of students in the general school population, it greatest use has been to identify students to receive special education services in adapted physical education.

The revision has been a 3 year project with an effort to enlist the help of data collectors from across the country. In addition, the 70 itinerant adapted physical educators of LAUSD tested students across the district. Whereas data are included nationally, the number of subjects tested has not met expectations. Therefore, the project team will continue to seek data to be included until the number of approximately 7,900 is reached. Currently, approximately 2,300 data sets have been included across all age groups.

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