BTEC International Level 3 Sport

Unit 25: Sports Injuries Management — assessment criteria

Learners develop the skills to identify common sporting injuries, their potential causes and how these can be managed with different rehabilitation interventions and exercises.

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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

7 criteria
A.P1Explain common sporting injuries and how these may occur.
A.P2Explain the physiological responses to common sporting injuries.
A.P3Explain the psychological responses to common sporting injuries.
B.P4Explain the different factors that can reduce and prevent sporting injuries.
B.P5Explain the preventative methods that can be used to reduce sporting injuries.
C.P6Explain the different factors for choosing treatments and interventions when managing common sporting injuries.
C.P7Design two safe treatment and rehabilitation programmes for different common sporting injuries.

Merit

4 criteria
A.M1Assess how different types of sporting injuries are affected by physiological responses.
A.M2Assess how different types of sporting injuries are affected by psychological responses.
B.M3Analyse the preventative methods that can be used to reduce sporting injuries.
C.M4Assess the treatment and rehabilitation programmes for two common sporting injuries.

Distinction

2 criteria
A.D1Justify the factors that can cause common sporting injuries and affect rehabilitation.
BC.D2Evaluate the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programmes for two common sport injuries, justifying the choices of intervention management and suggesting alternatives where appropriate.

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.

JustifyExplainAssessEvaluateAnalyseDesign
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. Explore different types and causes of common sporting injuries and how they affect sports
  • B. Explore risk factors for the management and prevention of common sporting
  • C. Develop treatment and rehabilitation programmes for common sports

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