SQA Higher PE Performance Development Process overview quiz quiz

Understand the performance demands and gather information on the factors

Set a SMART target before knowing any weaknesses

Evaluate a programme that has not yet started

Compete in a final to see what happens

An open questionnaire about how a performer felt

A standardised fitness test that produces numerical, comparable data

A coach's general written impressions

A discussion about the team's mood

A multi-stage fitness test

A sit-and-reach flexibility test

A questionnaire about anxiety before key games

A sprint speed test over ten metres

Because one method is banned by the SQA

Because methods are quicker when there are more of them

Because it wastes less equipment

Because each method has limits, so combining them increases reliability and validity

The approach must match the demands of the activity and the factor

The approach must be the same for every activity

The approach must avoid any rest at all

The approach must never change once chosen

The challenge stays exactly the same throughout

The challenge increases gradually as the performer improves

The performer trains until exhausted every session

The performer reduces training as the weeks go on

Get a lot fitter at some point

Be the best player in the team one day

Try harder in training generally

Raise passing success from 70 to 80 per cent in eight weeks

So the results are comparable to the baseline

Because new methods are not allowed

To make the test take longer

Because the original method is always the hardest

It removes the need to set any targets

It guarantees the programme will succeed

It shows whether the plan is working and lets the performer adjust it

It replaces the need to gather information first

By comparing final results against the baseline and target using the same methods

By asking whether they enjoyed the training

By guessing how much they improved

By comparing themselves to a completely different sport

Because tests are not allowed in competition

Because a skill that improves in practice but fails in games is not fully developed

Because transfer makes the test easier

Because whole performance never matters

It removes the need for any further development

It picks the next need at random

It proves no further work is ever needed

The evidence reveals remaining or newly exposed weaknesses to target next

All four: physical, mental, emotional and social

Only one: the physical factor

Only two: physical and mental

None; activities place no demands

It lets a performer skip the gathering of information

It shows which factors matter most, so development is prioritised and specific

It guarantees the performer wins every game

It means no monitoring is needed later