Methods of Presenting Practice

Question 1

What is distributed practice?

Answer 1

Allowing rest intervals between practice sessions.

Question 2

What is fixed practice?

Answer 2

Repetition of a drill.

Question 3

What is massed practice?

Answer 3

Training sessions with no rest interval.

Question 4

What is part practice?

Answer 4

The skill is divided into sub-routines in order to focus on specific cues during practice.

Question 5

What is varied practice?

Answer 5

Using different drills and methods in training sessions.

Question 6

What is whole practice?

Answer 6

Skills are practised in their entirety, with sub-routines intact.

Question 7

When is whole practice used?

Answer 7

• The skill is fast and ballistic
• The skill is highly organised and cannot be broken down
• The skill is simple
• The skill is discrete
• The performer is advanced
• The kinaesthesis of the whole skill is required.
• Consistency is required
• Links between sub-routines need to be maintained.
• Motor programmes need to be developed.

Question 8

What are the possible disadvantages of whole practice?

Answer 8

• There may be too much information to process
• The performer has to be fit and capable
• Not helpful for beginners

Question 9

What is the whole-part-whole method of practice?

Answer 9

The whole skill is taught, then weaknesses are highlighted, practiced separtely and then put back into the whole skill.

Question 10

When is a whole-part-whole method of practice used?

Answer 10

• A beginner is doing a complex task
• An experienced player is having problems
• A weakness can be highlighted
• Motivation
• Links between sub-routines need to be maintained
• There is a need for feedback and error correction.

Question 11

What is part-practice?

Answer 11

Breaking the sklls down into parts or sub-routines and then theahing them seperatley before putting them together.

Question 12

What are the 2 methods of part-pratice?

Answer 12

• The pure part method
• The progressive part method

Question 13

What is the pure part method?

Answer 13

Involves teaching the skill one part at a time and then putting it all together at the end.

Question 14

What is the pure part method used for?

Answer 14

Skills that are easily broken down, complex or dangerous.

Question 15

What is the progressive part method?

Answer 15

When the 1st part of the skill is taught and then the rest of the parts are added in sequence.