Physical Education A-Level
Whole and part practice methods
What Whole and part practice methods means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Whole and part practice methods
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Practising a skill as a whole when its sub-routines are difficult to separate, or practising sub-routines in isolation before recombining them when they are easily separated.
Topics that use Whole and part practice methods
- Skill, skill continuums and transfer of skills (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Bilateral transfer
- Classification of skills
- Continuum placement and justification
- Discrete–serial–continuous continuum
- Goal-directed behaviour
- High and low organisation
- Muscle-group size
- Negative transfer
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