Skill Classification, Practice and Transfer | OCR A-Level Physical Education (H555)
Skill Classification, Practice and Transfer
- 78 questions
- 5 subtopics
- Component 02: Psychological factors affecting performance
- Component 02
Skill Classification, Practice and Transfer is examined in Component 02, Psychological factors affecting performance.
It covers classifying skills by difficulty, environment and pacing, classifying skills by muscular involvement, continuity and organisation, whole, part, whole-part-whole and progressive part practice, massed, distributed, fixed and varied practice and transfer of learning between skills.
Sample questions from Skill Classification, Practice and Transfer
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Classifying skills by difficulty, environment and pacing
Justify placing a 100 m sprint towards the simple end of the difficulty continuum.
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The sprinter repeats a well-learned running action with little information to process. Few decisions are needed once the race is under way. -
Classifying skills by difficulty, environment and pacing
What is a self-paced skill?
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A self-paced skill is one where the performer controls when the skill starts and how fast it is performed. -
Classifying skills by muscular involvement, continuity and organisation
What is a serial skill?
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A serial skill is a series of discrete skills linked together in a set order. The triple jump is a serial skill of a hop, a step and a jump. -
Classifying skills by muscular involvement, continuity and organisation
What is a high-organisation skill?
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A high-organisation skill has subroutines that are closely linked and hard to separate. The skill is difficult to break down into parts. -
Whole, part, whole-part-whole and progressive part practice
What is part practice?
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Part practice breaks a skill into subroutines that are practised separately. The parts are later put back together into the whole skill. -
Whole, part, whole-part-whole and progressive part practice
Give two advantages of whole-part-whole practice.
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The performer keeps a feel for the whole skill while a weakness is corrected. The corrected part is quickly put back into the context of the full movement. -
Massed, distributed, fixed and varied practice
What is distributed practice?
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Distributed practice includes rest intervals between practice attempts. The rest can be used for recovery, feedback or mental rehearsal. -
Massed, distributed, fixed and varied practice
Give one disadvantage of fixed practice.
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Fixed practice does not prepare a performer for a changing game environment. Repeating the same drill can also become boring.
The 5 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Classifying skills by difficulty, environment and pacing | Skill continua and why coaches use them, simple and complex skills, open and closed skills, self-paced and externally paced skills, justified with a rugby pass, a sprint, a tennis serve, a golf drive and a badminton return. | 15 |
| Classifying skills by muscular involvement, continuity and organisation | Gross and fine skills, discrete, serial and continuous skills, and low- and high-organisation skills, justified with snooker, spin bowling, a floor routine, front crawl, a golf swing and breaststroke. | 15 |
| Whole, part, whole-part-whole and progressive part practice | Whole practice and the cartwheel, part practice and breaststroke, whole-part-whole practice for a tennis serve, and progressive part practice for the triple jump, with the advantages and disadvantages of each. | 17 |
| Massed, distributed, fixed and varied practice | Massed practice for free throws, distributed practice for a beginner swimmer, fixed practice for closed skills and varied practice for football passing, with the advantages and disadvantages of each. | 16 |
| Transfer of learning between skills | Positive, negative, proactive, retroactive and bilateral transfer, how coaches optimise positive transfer through realistic practice and reinforcement, limiting negative transfer between tennis and badminton, and fundamental motor skills. | 15 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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