Create a Lab Process Measure Project

Instructions from my professor

The thing that I have chosen to assess is a pirouette

Create a Lab Process Measure Project

Overview:

Over the course of the semester you will have completed 7 motor assessments of the preschool children and adults. Now its time for you to create your own lab/motor skill breakdown, also known as a Process Measure. You will have to choose a skill that is something that you consider yourself an expert in, that is not already listed in the book. Our book breaks down general skills, such as: Walking, running, hopping, leaping, jumping, skipping, throwing, catching, and striking (overarm and sidearm), etc. This means that you are free to choose a specific sport skill as your project focus.

Your mission will be to choose a skill and break it into its different body components and range the skill level from beginning to proficient. You will then format this information in two ways. One will be a written component (and similar to the introduction and instructions of our labs) and one will be formatting the record section of the lab.

The last piece of this project will be the Video and Lab Questions portion of the lab. You will be recording someone completing the skill and then assessing the process measure on the lab that you have formatted and created already. Then you will answer the questions given below in the instructions, about the assessment.

Process Measure Breakdown/Introduction and Instructions: 100 points

Make sure to choose a motor pattern that is both UNIQUE and SPECIFIC. I do not want you to break down a general skill that the book has already broken down for you. If you choose to do an Overhand Strike (which is in the book), how can you make it unique and specific to your sport? How is your breakdown going to be different than whats in the book? If you made it an overhand jump serve in Volleyball, you will have different components to break down in your project. If you are unsure about your topic, please clear it with the instructor before proceeding.

There will be a sign-up sheet posted on Blackboard. On this sheet you will need to state what your motor skill will be. I want all motor skills to be different among students. If someone signs up before you do, then they will have ownership over the skill. The sooner you sign up, the better.

Your skill must be broken down into a minimum of 4 body components. An example would include: Trunk Action, Arm Action, Upper Body Action, Leg Action, etc. A unique motor skill could even be broken into 7 different body components. Each motor skill will be different. Depending on the skill, there may even be a prep phase, action phase and recovery phase.

Each body component needs to have a minimum of 3 steps/levels. The minimum would be a beginner/intermediate/advanced levels to assess. If your specific skill has more levels of intermediate, you may have up to 6 steps/levels per body component.

An example of how to write this will be provided in a separate document. But you will need to break down each body component, and then follow it with a paragraph in laymens terms of what you are looking for. Imagine you are teaching someone who has never assessed this skill. You will need to include all of the important anecdotes in teaching them what is important about the skill.

You will also need to include a Figure Table (like they do in the instructions) of how to follow along and what skills to look for when assessing your skill. For example, in the striking lab they include a Figure Table for Racket/Bat Action. They proceed to ask, did you see THIS skill? If so, then move on to the next skill, if not, then the subject is in a Step 1 (for example). While I do not require pictures for this part of the project, you are able to include them as I believe they add a lot to the project and will make it more successful if you did. If you do include pictures, they need to be pictures that YOU have taken and not pictures pulled from the internet.

It is important to note: When breaking down the skill, you are not telling me HOW to do the skill from beginning to end. Make sure you break down the skill from what a beginner looks like doing the skill, through what someone who is proficient at the skill would look like. Also, you need to break down ONE skill. If you wanted to break down a jump serve in volleyball, you would break down a beginner doing a jump serve, through proficient. As an example, a mistake students can make would be using an underhand serve, then overarm serve, then a jump serve as their beginning/intermediate/advanced skills. These are three separate skills. Either one of these mistakes listed are major and will lose you most points on this project.

Create the Lab: 30 points

You will need to create a record sheet (just like our labs from Human Kinetics have) to compliment the written Process Measure portion of the lab. Provide the Body Components and the Steps/Levels that correlate with them. Include a table in which a peer can complete at least three assessments of different people.

Include a section for constraints to be listed on this lab. This is simply a heading asking whomever is to complete the lab to list constraints from every category, and then leaving space for that to be recorded.

You will turn in one copy of both the instructions and the record sheet to Blackboard, on a class discussion board (that all students will be able to access) for me to grade.

One of these sections will be filled out with the assessment done from the video portion of this assignment.

Video Assessment and Lab Questions: 50 Points

You will need to video someone (it could be yourself!) doing this motor skill. You will need a side view and a front view (Just like our labs provide) and a minimum of 3 attempts of the skill. You will then proceed to complete an assessment of the movement on your lab that you have already created.

Helpful Hint: When videoing this motor skill, choose someone who is NOT proficient in every body component category. It will actually make it more difficult to answer the follow up questions and show your knowledge on the topic. **Showing your knowledge on the topic is what scores you the big points J

There will be a set of questions to ask; You will be answering these questions as it pertains to the video that you have recorded for this assignment. Please format these questions just as you have seen them in your previous Human Kinetics Labs.

Mandatory questions:

1. List all of the constraints that pertain to this assessment. Please give either a + or as to how these constraints are promoting or inhibiting this skill.

2. Which of the body components is the easiest to assess and why? What did you see on this particular video that was assessed? Is there anything that they could do to become better or more skilled within that body component? If so, then what?

3. Which of the body components is the most difficult to assess and why? What did you see on this particular video that was assessed? Is there anything that they could do to become better or more skilled within that body component? If so, then what?

4. If you were hired by a coaching team to teach/coach this particular skill to a group of beginners, what body component is most important to the skill? Which part of the skill would you focus on first, and why? How would you coach someone that is in the Level 1 area for this body component?

5. If you were to change a constraint (any from Individual, Environmental or Task), how would it change the movement? Which constraint did you change in this imaginary setting and describe how it changes the movement.

Heres a link to what I have done

I am attaching screenshots of how she wants the photo evidence on the levels.

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Create a Lab Process Measure Project

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