體育評價作為一種認識活動,是從感性評價到理性評價的發展過程。其中,感性體育評價伴隨著人類體育活動的出現和發展一直貫穿其中,而漢代出現的"都試"以其明確的評價目的、嚴格的評價標準和嚴謹的實施過程成為理性體育評價的發端。理性體育評價在近代得到進一步發展,并開始出現有關體育評價的專門性研究。當前體育評價的形式和內容更加多樣化,已經開始把整個體育現象作為研究對象,涉及與體育有關的各個領域。

Sports evaluation as a cognitive activity is a process of development from perceptual evaluation to rational evaluation. Accompanying the appearance of human sports activities, perceptual sports evaluation therein went through such activities all the time, while the "grand military examination" appeared in the Han dynasty became the origin of rational sports evaluation due to its specific evaluation purposes, strict evaluation standards and precise implementation processes. Rational sports evaluation developed further in modern times, and dedicated sports evaluation related researches started to appear. Today the forms and contents of sports evaluation are more diversified, it has started to consider the entire sports phenomenon as its study object, and someday it will involve every sports related area.