BTEC International Level 3 Sport

Unit 29: Technical and Tactical Skills in Sport — assessment criteria

Learners explore the technical and tactical demands of selected sports and those required by elite sports performers, planning and reviewing their own abilities for a selected sport.

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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

5 criteria
A.P1Explain the technical and tactical demands of three contrasting sports.
B.P2Produce an observation checklist that can be used to explain the technical and tactical ability of an elite sports performer.
B.P3Use an observation checklist to explain the technical and tactical ability of an elite sport performer.
C.P4Use an observation checklist to explain own technical and tactical ability, in a competitive situation for a selected sport, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
C.P5Produce a development plan of own technical and tactical ability, based on identified strengths and areas for improvement.

Merit

3 criteria
A.M1Compare the technical and tactical demands of three contrasting sports.
B.M2Use an observation checklist to assess the technical and tactical ability of an elite sport performer, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
C.M3Assess strengths and areas for improvement, in your own technical and tactical ability in a selected sport and relate this to your development plan.

Distinction

3 criteria
A.D1Evaluate the technical and tactical demands of three contrasting sports.
B.D2Evaluate the technical and tactical ability of an elite sport performer, justifying development suggestions made regarding areas for improvement.
C.D3Justify suggestions made in the personal development plan to evaluate why these changes will improve performance levels in your selected sport.

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.

EvaluateExplainCompareProduceUseJustifyAssess
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. Investigate the technical and tactical ability of elite sports performers
  • C. Review own technical and tactical ability for a selected sport

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