Clarification details
Updated December 2018. The ‘understanding the process of devising strategies’ and ‘devising strategies’ sections have been updated to address issues in moderation.
Understanding the process of devising strategies
Students are required to develop, trial, and adjust the devised strategies with the intention to achieve their physical activity outcome rather than evaluating these strategies.
Physical activity outcome
A specific outcome should be considered for the physical activity rather than a range of outcomes.
Most relevant strategies
The strategies most relevant to achieving the physical activity outcome should be considered. This will allow for more depth in the student responses. Strategies that have been selected and explained should match those being trialled.
Devising strategies
Student responses must provide an explanation that includes:
- clearly identifying the intended physical activity outcome
- clearly identifying each strategy to be developed
- how and why they are intending to apply each strategy to meet their intended physical activity outcome
- specific examples of how they would apply each strategy.
Trialling and adjusting devised strategies
It is expected that strategies are trialled and adjusted before the physical activity outcome is completed rather than evaluating these strategies after the event/experience/ performance programme.
Student responses must provide:
- evidence of the strategies being trialled, with supporting examples
- an explanation of how and why adjustments are required to be made to each strategy after the trialling process to achieve the intended physical activity outcome. These adjustments should align with the student’s reflection.
- if no strategies require adjustment, this needs to be reflected in the explanation relating to the physical activity outcome.