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Once fully developed, the FG-COMPASS will enable teachers to easily collect, monitor, analyze, and report student’s results, thus allowing assessment practices in fundamental movement skill performance to be more easily integrated into the instructional process in Physical Education. This instrument is unique in that it uses only three performance criteria (items) to test skill proficiency of fundamental movement skill tasks. Other assessment instruments devoted to test the quality aspects of fundamental movement skill performance use between 3 and 6 performance criteria in their measurement. This usually requires videotaping student’s performance for further analysis. One advantage of using an easy-to-use observational instrument is that it saves time. Further, teachers can conduct assessments on a regular basis. This can be particularly helpful if the goal is to detect potential problems with fundamental movement skill development.