Category: Sports and Athletics

Choose a sport or physical activity. What mental skill would be most beneficial

Choose a sport or physical activity. What mental skill would be most beneficial to develop in your chosen sport or physical activity?   How will you develop it (specific actions/programs)?  How will it benefit the performance and experience of your athlete(s)? Be as detailed as possible.
You must use 2-3 outside sources (articles, interviews, etc.) other than your textbook for each question
You may use your course notes to assist in answering your question
You need to use APA format for in-text citations and for your reference list
Reference list should be placed at the beginning of your paper 
No cover page is necessary
Your paper/essay will be reviewed by the Turnitin platform. Use of AI will not be tolerated!
– The sport I want to choose is basketball

2000 Word Written report
Students will critically appraise the role of the analy

2000 Word Written report
Students will critically appraise the role of the analyst through the use of contemporary research
Introduction
Guide: 400 – 500 words
Introduce analysis and it’s place within sport
Areas of analysis within the role of the analyst (football/soccer)
Aim of your report
Literature review
Guide: 1000 – 1250 words
You will need to engage in Academic resources.
Critically evaluate the literature
Use the literature to highlight areas within the role of the analyst
Critically evaluate the literature around that subject area
Future development – of the role of the analyst / research
Conclusion
Guide: 400 – 500 words
Summarise the points that have been made
What did you find / notice
The impact of those findings and future considerations
Critical Evaluation
Ask ‘why’ and ‘howl, not ‘what’
This means being analytical, not just descriptive. You need to:
Consider how valid and reliable the research is
What are its strengths and weaknesses?
Draw comparisons with other research findings
Ask the ‘why’ questions, like:
Why do the results differ from findings of other similar research?
What explanations have the authors suggested and are there alternatives?
Make links with practice and wider populations where appropriate
Example
Coach / Analyst Relationship
’Why’ and ‘How’ it is used / important (examples, research) – Re critical
What does this mean for the analyst – skills required (use research)
What developments are suggested. How does this relate to the applied environment

Instructions
Locate an article using the virtual library related to the topic Ex

Instructions
Locate an article using the virtual library related to the topic Explain why (coaching 6-8-year-olds in basketball, what drills would you introduce to work on the development of “basketball skills?.Why it’s so important and how it works for an athlete based on these specific sports listed below: 
Write a summary of what you learned. The last paragraph is your personal view of the article. The summary should include: who conducted the study, what was studied, where did the study take place and why did they do the study (purpose). Then using the format below, 
complete an article critique
Article Critique Template
Contributing Editor: Your name
Date: 
Reference: Sample size:  
Duration of study: Measurement tools:  
Editor’s comment/Summary:  

A vital skill in constructing an evidence-based review of literature is active r

A vital skill in constructing an evidence-based review of literature is active reading. This process involves a comprehension of the material presented, a synthesis of the information into meaningful constructs, and an expression of new ideas through the lens of the writer. Annotations help guide these efforts by presenting a formalized process to organize relevant information. Expand your previous annotated bibliography to include a minimum of 30 resources. As before, make certain these are peer-reviewed resources and not “op-ed” pieces. You have now received feedback on your abbreviated annotate bibliography and, as such, these annotations will be graded with a more critical eye. Review and follow the guidelines below.
The annotation consists of three parts:
Provide a very brief summary of the article
Identify the article’s relationship to your research
Give a short critique of the article’s merits
Cite your article in APA format:
PLEASE DO NOT USE AI!!

1. Define motor learning and provide an activity/sport as an example. List the f

1. Define motor learning and provide an activity/sport as an example. List the father of motor learning and discuss the historical growth and development of motor learning. List examples of how and why the government and scientists used motor learning with early research.
2. List and discuss the 3 central factors for consideration when teaching a new skill/activity.
3. Discuss all classifications of motor responses according to movements and how children develop through these stages (postural, transport, manipulation, cephalocaudally, proximodistal, preparation and execution)
4. List and explain Gentile’s-4 stage category system of teaching a skill. Please use the example provided to you in chapter 1 with respect to hitting a baseball. (You may draw a diagram) Discuss why this would apply to most / all activities that require objects that move.
5. Describe each type of skill and provide an example of each. (discrete, serial, continuous, gross/fine motor skills, and closed/open skills).
6. List and describe the 3 stages of learning and what you may notice in each stage while teaching an activity.
7. List and explain the 3 areas most important to you when training and evaluating a youth sport athlete. (ages 6-8)
8. List and discuss the 3 areas most important to you when training and evaluating an advanced or older athlete. (ages 18-21
9. List and discuss the 3 processes by which we learn and provide examples of each. Also explain Pavlov’s theory of learning.
10. performance, what are the five variables we discussed used to evaluate performance?
11. List and explain the 3 criteria used to measure performance.
12. Provide information on intrinsic, and extrinsic knowledge of results (KR), and knowledge of performance (KP), and how they play a role in learning and adjusting to errors.
13. Discuss the differences in direction vs magnitude information for feedback in learning new skills. Also, discuss why films and videos of performances have become useful and popular methods of correcting performance.
14. Using a skill or activity as an example, list and explain the 3 stages of information processing.
15. Discuss the difference between closed and open loop information processing and be able to provide an example of each.