Continuum placement and justification
What Continuum placement and justification means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Treating the continuum as a scale rather than two separate boxes, placing a skill at a point on it and justifying that position by identifying the dominant muscle groups and the precision demanded.
Placing a skill at a point on the scale and justifying it by identifying who determines when the skill starts and how fast it must be performed.
Topics that use Continuum placement and justification
- Skill, skill continuums and transfer of skills (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Bilateral transfer
- Classification of skills
- Discrete–serial–continuous continuum
- Goal-directed behaviour
- High and low organisation
- Muscle-group size
- Negative transfer
- Open skill
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