Assessment Type 2: Physical Activity Investigation

For a 10‑credit subject, students undertake one physical activity investigation.

For a 20‑credit subject, students undertake at least one physical activity investigation.

Students participate in one or more physical activities to investigate how personal, social, and cultural factors influence participation.

Students individually or collaboratively collect data from the activities undertaken (e.g. manually recording data, using apps, video analysis, and/or self‑assessment and peer assessment feedback).

Students integrate concepts from one or more focus areas to analyse the data and reflect on factors that may hinder or encourage participation in each activity.

Examples of activities that can support evidence of learning in this assessment type include, but are not limited, to:

• Comparison of two or more sporting activities/games and collection of data to determine the factors that affect inclusivity. Students evaluate a range of sociocultural factors that impact on the participation of individuals or groups in the sporting activities/games. An example is comparing korfball, European handball, and netball.
• Exploration of the popularity of modified sports/games that are shorter, faster, and more dynamic than the original sports/games. Students collect data to analyse and reflect on the impact of the modifications on the inclusivity and accessibility of the activity. Examples are Fast5 Netball, Twenty20 Cricket, AFL 9s, Nitro Athletics.
• Participation in a range of games with differently‑abled students. Students collect data on the challenges for these differently‑abled students in participating in the games and identify how changes of adaptations can be employed to ensure greater inclusivity.
• Participation in at least one traditional cultural game (e.g. buroinjin, see sportingschools.gov.au) and reflection on the enablers and barriers to participation, which may include biophysical, psychological, and/or communicative factors.

Students may present evidence of their learning in various formats, for example:

• blog or vlog
• video analysis
• screencast
• newspaper article advocating for inclusivity and equity
• reflective journal
• collaborative investigation and presentation.

For a 10‑credit subject:

• the evidence for one physical activity investigation task should be a maximum of 9 minutes for an oral or multimodal presentation, or a maximum of 1500 words if written.

For a 20‑credit subject:

• the evidence for one physical activity investigation task should be a maximum of 9 minutes for oral or multimodal presentations, or a maximum of 1500 words if written
• the evidence for two physical activity investigation tasks should be a maximum of 18 minutes for oral or multimodal presentations, or a maximum of 3000 words if written
• the evidence for three physical activity investigation tasks should be a maximum of 27 minutes for oral or multimodal presentations, or a maximum of 4500 words if written.

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning in relation to the following assessment design criteria:

• application and communication
• exploration, analysis, and reflection.