BTEC International Level 2 Sport

Unit 10: Technical Skills and Tactical Awareness for Sport — assessment criteria

Learners will develop an understanding of the importance of developing technical skills and tactical awareness within a sporting context.

Internal60 GLH15 criteria3 learning aims
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Assessment criteria

Reproduced verbatim from the Pearson specification — the same grid the assignment brief carries. A unit grade is the highest band where all criteria in that band (and every band below it) are met.

Pass

8 criteria
A.P1Describe the role that technical skills play in a chosen individual and team sports.
A.P2Describe some basic tactical approaches related to individual and team sports.
B.P3Describe the ideal technical model related to a key technique in both an individual and team sport.
B.P4Outline methods that can be used to assess technical skills.
B.P5Describe methods that can be used to assess tactical approaches.
C.P6Outline a plan for the self-assessment of technical skills and tactical performance.
C.P7Summarise the results from the technical and tactical self-assessment.
C.P8Identify the technical skills and tactical applications that could be developed.

Merit

4 criteria
A.M1Explain how both technical skills and tactical approaches can impact on performance in a chosen individual and team sport.
B.M2Explain how assessing the performance of technical skills against an ideal technical model can impact sports performance.
B.M3Explain how the application of tactical approaches can impact sports performance.
C.M4Explain the reasons behind the selection of the identified technical skills and tactical application area in relation to existing performance level

Distinction

3 criteria
A.D1Evaluate the impact of the development of technical skills and tactical approaches on performance in individual and team sports.
B.D2Evaluate the impact of the assessment of technical skills and the application of tactical approaches on performance in individual and team sports.
C.D3Evaluate the impact developing the identified technical skills and tactical awareness will have on own performance.

Command verbs in this unit

The verb decides the depth expected — that is what separates Pass from Merit and Distinction work on the same learning aim.

EvaluateDescribeExplainOutlineSummariseIdentify
Pearson's ladder runs Identify → Describe → Explain → Compare / Analyse → Evaluate / Justify / Assess. A Merit or Distinction criterion on the same aim always implies the Pass beneath it: an “evaluate” answer that never first “explains” fails, however polished it reads. Hover a verb for what it demands.

Learning aims

  • A.
  • B. Understand the ideal technical model of sports performance and the application of tactical
  • C. Assess your own technical and tactical performance for a selected sport

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