Unit 3 (LO3) Flashcards
How’s sports development is measured: Level of Performance
- Increased standard of coaching
- Medals won at the Olympic / Paralympic Games
- Increased success in elite sports (Global ranking)
- Personal bests / records by Olympic athletes
- Higher talent pool of young athletes
Measured by:
- Benchmark / eg. Clubmark
- Self Assessment
- External Assessment
How’s sports development is measured: Level of Participation
- Amount of sports facilities booked and in use
- More memberships with NGBs
- Amount of people participating in sports
- More target groups participating
- Number of people attending sports development events
Measured by:
- Surveys
- Uptake on NGB schemes
‘Active people survey sent twice a year
How’s sports development is measured: Impact on Society
- Boost for the economy
- Reduced crime rates
- Improved behaviour in schools
- Better health / less stress on NHS
- Lower rates of obesity
Measurements for Performance magnified:
- MAIN POINT (Total number of medals earned in Olympics and Global ranking)
- How sporting access has improved for a more broader range of people
- Extent to which quality of life has improved
- How social barriers have been tackled
- Increased awareness of volunteers needed to assist initiatives.
- Level of excellence and educational activities developed
- Empowerment created amongst people and organisations
Methods used to measure:
- BENCHMARK and quality schemes, used to grade the success of sports initiatives or clubs.
- “CLUBMARK” awarded to local clubs in a range of sports which indicates the club is run well.
- Clubs with a CLUBMARK accreditation may attract more funding and more players.
To receive a CLUBMARK clubs are graded against:
- Activities and Programmes - Does the club provide good, inclusive activities; women’s and veteran teams.
- Care and Welfare - Does the club keep everyone safe (coaches, parents, players).
- Community- Promote fairness and equality among clubs members (rich / poor, BAME, Gender).
- Management- Is the club well managed and structured
The 2 ways in which Clubs can be assessed:
Self assessment- grading themselves.
External assessment - Being visited by external assessors.
How clubs Self Assess:
- An innovative team
- Improved team morale
- Improved results (winning)
How clubs are externally assessed:
- The schemes focuses on the self assessment criteria for business planning and financial management.
- Some of this may involve a mystery visit by an industrial professional, and visits by mystery shoppers whom complete forms either proving their self assessment or arguing a different opinion.
Measuring Participation:
- Surveys; These collect data on people’s physical activity levels across the country.
- Uptake of NGB schemes; The amount of people or clubs taking part in NGB schemes and programmes is a good indicator of how many people are participating in sport.
What does the ‘Active peoples survey’ seek to identify;
- Who participates in particular activities, providing a demographic breakdown (age,gender,socioeconomic groups,ethnicity,location and disability).
- Where people participate in
- How people participate (memberships of a club, volunteering)
Advantages of a survey
- Cheap.
- Quick and easy to administer.
- Can be conducted and completed online.
- Can collect lots of data from a large group of respondents.
- Software can be used to quickly interpret and display data.
- Can be designed specifically for certain groups of people.
Disadvantages of a survey
- People may not tell the truth.
- Data could be inaccurate or not valid.
- People may feel uncomfortable answering questions related to physical activity.
- People may not understand the question.
- People may not take the survey.
- Errors may occur with data if people make mistakes
Sport England measures NGB impact on participation based upon the ‘whole sport plan’, demonstrating the following;
- Increased participation levels among 14-25 year olds.
- Increased adult participation.
- High quality talent development.
- Increased participation for disabled people.
Measuring Impact on society:
- Health impacts
- Crime rates
- Education
- Economy
- Employment
Effects of regular exercise on 0-5 year olds;
- Motor skills development
- Developing a healthy body weight
- Skeletal muscle development
- Laying foundations for an active life as a child grows
Effects of regular exercise on 6-18 year olds;
- Reduction in body fat.
- Healthy body weight / stop eating , eating more.
- Improved bone health
- More efficient metabolism
- Improved Cardiovascular health
- Improved physiological health / Positives and negatives
Effects of regular exercise on 19-64 year olds;
- Reduction in coronary heart disease
- Reduction in strokes
- Reduction in type 2 diabetes
- Reduction in Osteoporosis
- Decrease in some cancers
- Positives impact on depression and physiological health
Effects of regular exercise on 65+ year olds;
- Improvement in cardiovascular function
- Improvement in strength
- Longer retention of Cognitive abilities
- Reduced likelihood of failing
- Improvements to physiological well being
Purpose of measurements;
- To demonstrate success
- To justify funding
- To identify areas to improve
- Illustrating best practice
Demonstrating success;
- Improvement on health and fitness levels as a result of schemes
- Sporting outcomes may also be measured via success at elite levels
- Measure the positive impacts of sporting initiatives
Justifying funding;
- Funding may be justified on the basis of frequency of facility usage
- Published objectives of particular sports development programmes
- Objectives may revolve around increasing participation levels for specific social groups
Areas to improve;
By receiving the extent to which a particular initiative has achieved its stated outcomes and thus whether the sports development programme is worthy of ongoing support.
Illustrating best practices;
- How particular social groups have been engaged in sport; this might include how disabled participants are included in a particular sports programme.
- How sports clubs are supported and how a particular coaching network undertakes continual professional development and qualifications.
