Module: Evaluating & Planning for Elite Performance

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Evaluating & Planning for Elite Performance
Module Code	SS507 (ITS) / SPO1050 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Health & Human Performance
Module Co-ordinator	Áine MacNamara
Module Teachers	Stephen Behan
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	7.5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

In this module students will deepen their understanding of the literature and theories of the motivation, cognitive and behavioural processes underpinning performance in their sport domain. Students will examine how various theoretical approaches can be used to drive elite performance, and support performers in complex environments. Students will explore the strengths and limitations of measurement issues in their performance domain as a means of making sense of available data and information. Students will examine and explore the advantages of interdisciplinary research in understanding and optimising sport performance.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify, critically evaluate and synthesise current developments in elite sport performance
2. Critically examine the ways in which performance is measured and evaluated, both theoretically and empirically, in their domain
3. Consider and critique specific motivational, behavioural and cognitive influences on sport performance
4. Investigate and consider the potential for interdisciplinary research on innovation within their sports performance domain

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Online activity	25	Students will engage with online material via Loop including but not limited to webinars, online tasks, quizzes, and tutorials
Online activity	100	Independent pursuit of relevant issues and ideas raised during the module. Participants will be expected to engage in reading and critical review of literature relevant to the module
Directed learning	25	Stimulus presentations and discussion, delivered online using blended learning formats, will be used to tease out possible contributing topics and test the student’s current levels of knowledge and experience with them. As their reading progresses, students may be directed towards relevant recent investigations in their own and parallel domains.
Assignment Completion	37.5	Students will individually complete assignments
Total Workload: 187.5

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Capturing elite performance
Students will focus on this issue and discuss the advantages of interdisciplinary research for understanding sport performance. Students will focus on the issue of interdisciplinarity and illustrate how the ecological approaches can be used to drive elite performers and support performers in complex environments. Students will explore the strengths and limitations of measurement issues in their performance domain as a means of supporting the efficacy of any potential innovation.

Planning for Performance
Students will focus on the behaviours and cognitive processes required to achieve high level performance in sport. Students will examine the motivational, cognitive and behavioural processes underpinning performance and how these apply to change and innovation in their domain. The concept of planning to achieve elite performance will explore periodised planning

Data collection and measurement
Students will explore appropriate methods of evaluation and measurement of performance specific to their professional context and the quality of information and data that supports or limits informed decisions in their professional context.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Presentation	Oral presentation (e.g. describing, using exemplars, the strengths and weaknesses of evaluation methods in their professional context)	30%	n/a
Assignment	Assignment focused on the planning and evaluation of a specified intervention in their professional context including a critical consideration of motivational, behavioral and cognitive influences on performance.	70%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Dave Collins,Andrew Cruickshank,Geir Jordet: 2019, Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance, Routledge International Handbooks, 9781138290303
Renshaw, I., & Gorman, A. D.: 2015, Challenges to capturing expertise in field settings. In J. Baker & D. Farrow (Eds.), Routledge international handbooks. Routledge handbook of sport expertise, Routledge,

Other Resources

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