Verbal guidance
What Verbal guidance means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Verbal guidance
Exam boards and our study guides word this term in slightly different ways. Learn the version your board uses.
Check what you remember
Read the wording for your board, then hide it and explain Verbal guidance in your own words. Rough notes are fine. This is a self-check, with no mark or grade.
Reference: AQA
Information given through spoken words, such as a coach saying "drive your knee up" during a sprint drill.
Guidance given through spoken words, where a coach may instruct, cue, encourage or correct a performer.
Topics that use Verbal guidance
- Use of guidance and feedback (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Classification of feedback by effect on the learner
- Cognitive stage
- Concurrent and terminal feedback
- Detection and correction of error
- Extrinsic feedback
- Information overload
- Intrinsic and extrinsic feedback
- Intrinsic feedback
Using Verbal guidance in the exam
Check the command word and mark scheme for your exact question. After comparing your explanation with the reference, use the term in an answer on the linked topic. This practice does not predict an exam mark.
Practise Physical Education questions
Create a free account to answer exam-style questions on this topic and get feedback on your answers.
A week of Premium from your first lesson · Then the free plan continues · No card, no charge