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How are movement skills acquired, developed and improved?

Content Point Two

Research how movement skills are acquired, developed and improved in a sport of choice

Including:

  • what does the research tell us about acquiring, developing and improving the movement skill?
  • how is this applied in practice?
  • what further research questions can be proposed to further understand skill development?

NESA Glossary of Key Words:   

How - Relate cause and effect, make the relationships between things evident.

What - Provide characteristics and features.

Learning Activities 

Work in small groups to conduct research into how movement skills are acquired, developed and improved in a sport of your choice.
Produce a video, presentation or in depth report that includes:

 

  • What does the research tell us about acquiring, developing and improving the movement skill?

 

  • How is this applied in practice?

 

  • The characteristics of the learner.

 

  • The stages of skill acquisition and how to move through them, how long they might take and which practice method might be best used at this stage.

 

  • The characteristics of the sports skill chosen (gross and fine, continuous, discrete and serial, open and closed, self-paced and externally paced).

 

  • A summary of the performance elements for executing the skill in their chosen sport 

 (decision-making, strategic and tactical development).

 

  • Which types of feedback would be best used? (task-intrinsic, augmented, concurrent, delayed, knowledge of results, knowledge of performance). 

 

  • A description of three practice sessions to improve skills in this sport. 

 

  • What further research questions might be helpful in understanding the development of the chosen skill in the sport chosen?

Revision Questions 

1. Why is it important for an athlete to develop the elements of performance? 

 

2. Provide an example of how feedback can be provided at different stages of learning to improve performance.

 

3. What does the research tell us about acquiring, developing and improving a movement skill?

 

4. Analyse movement skills are acquired, developed and improved in a sport of choice.

Sample Answers

Sample answers coming soon.

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