The project: SQA Advanced Higher Physical Education quiz quiz

30 marks

50 marks

70 marks

100 marks

Research, proposal, evaluation, implementation

Proposal, research, implementing the PDP, analysis and evaluation

Implementation, proposal, research, evaluation

Evaluation, research, proposal, implementation

To re-test the factor against the baseline

To carry out the personal development plan

To evaluate the development process

To select and justify a factor and context and plan baseline data collection

A specific factor can be measured, developed and re-tested, while a broad one cannot be investigated properly

Broad factors always score higher

Specific factors need no data collection

It makes the project shorter to write

A practical performance mark

A final evaluation report

The baseline data

A personal development plan (PDP)

It removes the need for goals

It shows the size and nature of the gap and gives a benchmark to measure improvement against

It guarantees the plan will work

It replaces the need for further research

Writing the project proposal

Choosing the factor to investigate

Implementing the personal development plan, monitoring it and summarising it

Setting the baseline only

To save time in the project

Because new methods are not allowed at any point

So the data are comparable on a like-for-like basis and progress can be tracked

To increase the difficulty of the plan

Adapt the plan, for example by applying progression or changing a method that is not transferring

Stop the project immediately

Ignore the data and continue unchanged

Restart from a brand-new factor

To set the original goals

To record what was done and how, providing the evidence base for the Stage 4 evaluation

To choose the performance activity

To replace the re-test

Identify future development needs

Write the project proposal

Create the personal development plan

Re-test the factor using the same methods as the baseline

Listing the final test scores only

Stating that performance improved

Repeating the baseline data

Judging how well the process worked and why, with reference to methods, monitoring, barriers and data quality

Because development is cyclical, so evaluation should feed the next round of analysis and development

Because it is worth all 70 marks

Because it replaces the evaluation

Because the SQA forbids finishing a factor

It is a group task marked by the class teacher only

It is an independent investigation, externally assessed, worth 70 marks

It is a theory essay with no data collection

It is worth fewer marks than the practical performance