Are characteristics or observable features of a person
What are traits?
Is a firm belief in one’s own ability.
What is self confidence?
Require the use of large muscle groups for execution.
What are gross motor skills?
Is all feedback other than that which occurs as a normal consequence of performing a skill. Includes coaches suggestions, race results and video replays.
What is external feedback?
Is the ability to move the body from one position and direction to another with speed and precision.
What is agility?
A focus on the whole game and all components, rather than a sequence of basic skills assembled within a game format. The emphasis is on integrating thinking and learning rather than skill development in isolation.
What is a game centred approach?
Have no distinct beginning or end.
What are continuous skills?
Involves a continuous practice session, with the rest intervals being shorter than the practice intervals.
What is massed practice?
Is the extent to which a measure or test is independent of the observer.
What is objectivity?
Occur in an environment that is stable and predictable.
What are closed skills?
Is received after the skill has been executed.
What is delayed feedback?
Refers to an individual’s characteristic way of behaving.
What is personality?
Are established by a sports organisation or body and form the basis of assessment for competitions in that sport or activity.
What are prescribed criteria?
Are movements for which the performer determines the timing and speed of execution.
What are self paced skills?
Involve a sequence of smaller movements that are assembled to make a total skill.
What are serial skills?
Is the honesty of a test — that is, the degree to which it measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
Refers to a judgement of performance quality based on feelings, impressions or opinions rather than a measurement system.
What is subjective observation?
Occur in an environment that is unpredictable and frequently changing.
What are open skills?
Is information about the pattern of the movement during execution.
What is knowledge of performance?
Are movements for which an external source controls the timing.
What are externally paced skills?