BTEC International Level 2 Sport

Unit 8: Sports-related Injuries and Illnesses — assessment criteria

Learners explore the different common injuries and illnesses that can affect a sports performer.

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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

6 criteria
A.P1Describe different risks or hazards that relate to people, equipment and the environment.
B.P2Discuss different physiological and three psychological causes of injury in relation to sport.
B.P3Describe different types of basic and complex injuries associated with sports participation.
B.P4Describe different types and signs of illness associated with sports participation.
C.P5Describe the physiological and immediate and long-term psychological responses to injury in sport.
C.P6Describe short- and long-term basic care for physiological and psychological responses of sports injuries.

Merit

3 criteria
A.M1Explain different risks or hazards that relate to people, equipment and the environment.
B.M2Explain the relationship between causes of injury and basic and complex types of injury using sports-specific examples.
C.M3Explain the responses and process of physiological and psychological care for a selected sports injury.

Distinction

3 criteria
A.D1Analyse the risks or hazards that relate to people, equipment and the environment.
B.D2Analyse how selected injuries and illnesses occur and the associated types and signs of these injuries and illnesses.
C.D3Justify selected methods used to care for physiological and psychological responses to a selected injury in a sporting context.

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.

AnalyseDescribeExplainDiscussJustify
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. Discuss different injuries and illnesses associated with sports participation
  • C. Describe the response to injury and injury care

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