Tips for Club Test Chairs
Questions? Or if you would like
to share ideas or hints, please let us know. (memberservice@skating-wos.on.ca)
Notice to Clubs, Coaches & Test Chairs Re Planned Program Sheets for all Freeskate Tests
As of September 21st, please be advised that for all Skate Canada freeskate tests, skaters are requested to submit a completed Planned Program Sheet to the Test Chair prior to the test day.
On the test day, the Test Chair will forward the Planned Program Sheets to the evaluator(s) prior to the skater commencing the freeskate test.
NEW STARSkate Free Skating Test Sheets
Revised test sheets are available online and for order. These sheets will be effective July 1, 2011. Please ensure that these sheets are in use for all STARSkate free skating tests after July 1st!
Judges & Evaluators List for Test Chairs Only
The section judges' list is now available to our Club Test Chairs through the Western Ontario Members' Only site - via Skate Canada's Members Only site. This list is for your Club's Test Chair's use ONLY in arranging test days. Please treat this information as confidential and respect our officials' privacy! Note that the list will be updated throughout the year.
Please make every effort to invite different evaluators to your subsequent test sessions rather than using the same evaluator. Newly qualified evaluators as well as current evaluators need to remain consistent with the standards and this comes with experience. This is a challenge when the same evaluator goes to the same club every test day. Thanks for supporting our judging community!
Gold
Tests
Please
submit every completed Gold Test passed by a skater
in your club to the Section Office, using the Gold
Test Report Form [fill and print PDF]. Requests for Gold Test Certificates should
be sent directly to the Section Office and should be accompanied
by a photocopy of the Test Summary Sheet.
Test Summary Sheets
The Section copy should be sent to the Section Office.
Test Day Emergencies
If an "emergency" situation arises at your test day
and you require any type of support, please contact
the WO Judges' Chair.
Dance Rules as Applied to Test Days
Thanks for Helping Promote Our Evaluators!!
Thank you for your ongoing
assistance to our evaluators seeking
promotion by letting them know of your test days, having extra test sheets available for them to use when trial judging, providing encouragement and making them feel welcome!
Codes Used in the WO Evaluators'/Judges'
List
The following codes should help you understand the judging qualifications
of our officials.
1. Codes for Evaluated test qualifications are:
- PRE - Preliminary
- JB - Junior Bronze
- JS - Junior Silver
- GLD - Gold
- DIA - Diamond Dances, which no longer require a panel
2. Under Interpretive, you will see “Y”
which indicates they are qualified to evaluate all interpretive tests.
3. Codes for Judging (competitive tests/competitions)
qualifications are:
- PRI - Primary
- JUV - Juvenile
- PN - Pre-Novice
- NOV - Novice
- JR - Junior
- SR - Senior
- CDN - Canadian
- INT - International
- ISU - International Skating Union
4. Codes for Referee levels are:
- SEC - Sectional Level
- CDN - Canadian
- INT - International
- ISU - International Skating Union
5. Under Synchro you will find either a “Y” meaning
they are qualified, or an ISU for the next level.
Competitive Tests
Competitive tests MUST be judged by a panel of 3
judges. In exceptional circumstances only, single panel judging may be used by obtaining
advance permission from Susan Blatz, WO Section Judges’ Chair.
Sample Forms for Your Test Day
With special thanks to Lori Mackey, Parkhill Silver Blades. These
have been adapted from the forms she has used at her Club. They
are available in Word so that you may download from here and adapt
further to suit your needs.
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