Abstract: Based on the background of teacher education program certification and the pre-service physical education teachers professional standards which were constructed earlier, this study developed a standard-based pre-service physical education teacher quality assessment and certification system. Research results show that the purpose of certification system is to evaluate the performance of pre-service physical education teachers in three aspects: professionalism, professional knowledge and professional practice. The certification system includes certification indicators and implementation procedures. Certification indicators include task-oriented analytical rubrics and assessment material requirements. The rubrics cover six compulsory indicator clusters and two selective indicator clusters, as well as the corresponding sub-indicators and three performance levels. The assessment material requirements also include six materials, two free-choice materials and corresponding background materials. The implementation of evaluation and certification includes six steps. The certification system can ensure the acceptable quality of pre-service physical education teachers, to adjust the training structure of pre-service physical education teachers, and to supervise the training of pre-service physical education teachers from outside. In the future application process, we should pay attention to the recycling of the certification system, give full play to the feedback function of the certification results, and improve the quality of talent training according to the certification.

Key words: professional standards, pre-service, physical education teacher, assessment and certification, implementation procedures, physical education program