Types and Methods of Practice Flashcards
What are the factors affecting choice of practice/method?
-The type of skills being taught
-The complexity of the skill
-The environment
-The ability level of the performer
-The motivational level of the performer
What is whole practice?
Practicing a skill in its entirety
What is a practical example of whole practice?
Golf swing, sprinting, cartwheel
What are the advantages of whole practice?
-Develops a feel for the movement and its flow, kinaesthesis
-Appreciate the relationship between the parts of the movement, which helps the flow of the movement
-Good for ballistic skill, and helping learners understanding of movement
-Can be quicker than using the part method
What are the disadvantages of whole practice?
-Not suitable for complex or dangerous skills
-Information overload
-De-motivation
-Hard for beginner to grasp whole skill at once
-Hard to isolate problem areas
What is part practice?
Fractionation, breaking a skill down and practicing separate subroutines
A →B →C →D →ABCD
What is a practical example of part practice?
Tennis serve, badminton serve
What are the advantages of part practice?
-Reduces amount of information needed to process
-Good for complex and dangerous skills, lessens risk and fear
-Good for learning serial skills
-Leaner is motivated by being successful in past of skill, develops confidence
What are the disadvantages of part practice?
-Time consuming
-Transferring skills back to whole skill can be difficult
-Difficult to develop kinaesthetic awareness of skill, and flow of skill
What is progressive part practice?
Skill is split up into parts (segmentation) and learned. Subroutines are then chained and linked together
A →B →AB →C →ABC
What is an example of progressive part practice?
Triple jumper splitting the jump into hop, step, jump, learning the parts then putting them together
What are the advantages of progressive part practice?
-Good for complex skills
-Reduces information load
-Helps to transfer skills into the whole skill
-Helps learner remember the links between the subroutines
-Breaks movement down into subroutines, to make it easier to learn
What are the disadvantages of progressive part practice?
-Time consuming
What is whole-part-whole practice?
Skill practiced in its entirety, then separated into subroutines (fractionation), then put parts back together and perform skill in its entirety
What is a practical example of whole-part-whole practice?
Swimming, trampolining, diving
What are the advantages of whole-part-whole practice?
-Learner gets a feel for the skill and its flow
-Quicker than part method as only the parts of the skill which the learner has difficulty with need to be practiced in isolation
What are the disadvantages of whole-part-whole practice?
-Not suitable for highly organised skills
-Cannot be broken down for dangerous skills
