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Unit Title: Sport in Society

 

Unit Code:   5T5Z0018

Core: YES (SM

Level: L5

 

only)

 

Assignment Title: A critical review into the development of a current public sport policy

 

Assignment Task:

 

You are required to select, analyse and critique a current public sport policy that is promoted by the government and produce a report (2,500 words) that outlines the:

 

  • Factors that have influenced the development of your chosen sport policy;

 

  • The programmes and projects that have been implemented at the grassroots level to support the delivery of your chosen sport policy;
    • Outcomes including key performance indicators used to measure its success.

 

Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed.

 Analyse how public policy influences sport from a business and social perspective.

 Evaluate how macro environmental factors influence the development and implementation of sport policy.

 

Assignment Details and Instructions.

 

Assignment Details:

 

Write a 2,500 word individual report (+/- 10%).

 

Students should select one of the three current sport policies that have been identified within the governments new sport strategy (Sporting Future: A New Strategy for an Active Nation).

 

Students should refer to the specific policy theory introduced in the lectures and tutorials to help them analyse and critically review their chosen sport policy.

 

Students are advised to be selective in the utilisation of the number of programmes and projects that have been implemented to support the delivery of your chosen sport policy. This is to avoid a descriptive account being provided of all the programmes and projects that could be attributed to your chosen sport policy. By way of a guideline, the selection of 2-4 programmes and projects will suffice to answer this specific part of the assessment brief.

 

Students should also refer to the five outcomes identified in ‘Sporting Future: A New

Strategy for an Active Nation) when answering this specific part of the assessment brief.

 

Further Instructions:

 

A number of formative workshops will be scheduled during the lectures and tutorials to provide guidance and additional information on this assessment. Students are required to attend these sessions to ensure relevant engagement with this assessment.

 

The report should be written in an appropriate business-like format (see Moodle for further information).

 

Harvard referencing must be used.

 

Early Career/ World Class Professional Skills (PLOs) being assessed or developed/assessed.

 

This assessment will help students to develop their professional development skills and in particular focus on developing their understanding of the political and policy landscape of the sport industry. By completing this assessment, students will also develop their information gathering capabilities and critically evaluate how public sport policies are developed and implemented to the grassroots level. These skills are considered essential for students as they begin to develop as an Early Career /World Professional Skills within the sports industry.

 

Specifically, this assessment supports the development and assessment of the following Programme Learning Outcomes (PLOs):

 

PLO1 – Our graduates will apply critical thinking to practical and theoretical problems.

 

  • This assessment involves students to critically review a recent sport policy including why it has been developed, how it has been developed and how it is measured.

 

PLO2 - Our graduates will be effective communicators using a range of media.

  • This assessment involves students producing a professional report.

 

PLO5 - Our graduates will develop subject specific knowledge and skills in their programme discipline.

 

  • This assessment will help students to develop their specific knowledge of how policies are developed and delivered in sport.

 

 

In addition to content feedback, students will be given feedback on your skills development and areas requiring further improvement to enhance your progress as an Early Career Professional.

 

 

Resources

 

See Reading List on Moodle

 

Marking Criteria * See below

 

Group Work Guidelines (If applicable) N/A

Unit Specification

 

See Moodle

 

 

Assessment Marking Criteria* - SiS Assessment 1

 

Assessment

0-19%

20-34%

35-39%

40-49%

50-59%

60-69%

70-85%

86-100%

 

descriptor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Structure and

Unstructured

Unclear and

Basic structure

Adequate

Good structure to

Very good

Excellent structure

Outstanding

 

writing style

presentation of

confused

used. Some

structure used.

the report.

structure to the

which shows

structure and flow

 

(20%)

report. Some

structured used.

incoherent sections

Sufficient detail in

Appropriate use of

report.

innovative flow

throughout.

 

Work is

absent sections

Some sections

that lack flow.

sections but

 

between report

 

 

academic

Good use of

Complex language

 

appropriately

(i.e. introduction,

missing (i.e.

Incomplete/ limited

completely

sections.

 

language.

academic

and syntax.

 

structured, logical

conclusions).

introduction,

detail to sections.

descriptive.

 

 

Appropriate

language. Precise

Excellent use of

Outstanding

 

and organised.

 

conclusions).

 

 

 

Inappropriate

Poor use of

Acceptable,

syntax, few

syntax.

academic language,

grammar used

 

 

 

 

Appropriate

language and

Very poor use of

academic language,

language,

spelling or

 

sophisticated

throughout.

 

syntax;

language, syntax

too many spelling

grammar and

grammatical

 

syntax. Excellent

 

 

language,

 

 

 

unacceptable

and spelling;

errors, bad

syntax. Still needs

errors.

 

spelling  and

 

 

grammar, syntax

 

 

 

grammar and

extremely poor

grammar.

to be more

 

 

grammar.

 

 

and spelling is

 

 

 

 

spelling.

grammar.

 

academic.

 

 

 

 

 

used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Content (30%)

Little or no

There is an

There is a partial

The report has

There is a careful

There is a

There is originality

An innovative and

 

Find, evaluate and

attempt to collect,

inadequate

attempt to collect,

collected,

approach to the

thorough

in the collection,

thorough approach

 

synthesise

analyse and

attempt to collect,

analyse and critique

analysed, and

collection, analyse

approach to the

analyse and critique

to the collection,

 

information from

critique

analyse and

information from

critiqued

and critique of

collection, analyse

of information from

analyse and critique

 

a variety of

information from

critique

primary and

information from

information from

and critique of

primary and

of information from

 

sources, including

primary and

information from

secondary sources

primary and

primary and

information from

secondary sources

primary and

 

policy theory and

secondary sources

primary and

as related to your

secondary sources

secondary sources

primary and

as related to your

secondary sources as

 

theory related to

as related to your

secondary sources

chosen sport policy.

as related to your

as related to your

secondary sources

chosen sport policy,

related to the chosen

 

your chosen sport

chosen policy.

as related to your

 

chosen sport

chosen sport

as related to your

bringing insight to

sport policy, bringing

 

policy.

 

chosen policy.

 

policy.

policy.

chosen sport

the analysis.

original insight to the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

policy.

 

analysis.

 

3 Analysis (40%)

Links between

Links between

Links between

Links between

Links between

Links between

Links between

Links between policy

 

Apply skills of

policy theory and

policy theory and

policy theory and

policy theory and

policy theory and

policy theory and

policy theory and

theory and your

 

research and

your chosen sport

your chosen sport

your chosen sport

your chosen sport

your chosen sport

your chosen sport

your chosen sport

chosen sport policy

 

critical analysis to

policy are absent,

policy are

policy are

policy are

policy are

policy are

policy are evaluated

are evaluated

 

critically

or confused or

confused or

inadequate and

constructed but

analysed.

evaluated.

critically.

critically, with

 

evaluating your

wrong.

wrong.

largely descriptive.

remain mainly

 

 

 

original insight.

 

sport policy.

 

 

 

descriptive.

 

 

 

 

 

4 Referencing

No referencing

Very few

Some references

Adequate Harvard

Appropriate

Through and

Sophisticated

Authoritative

 

(10%)

apparent.

references, poor in

and in text citations.

referencing and in

Harvard

sufficient

referencing and

referencing and in

 

Consistent and

 

text citations. Poor

Not in the Harvard

text citations, but

referencing,

referencing.

precise in text

text citations.

 

appropriate

 

use of Harvard

style or

still some

Sufficient in text

Largely precise in

citations.

 

 

referencing and in

 

style.

inconsistently

inconsistences,

citations, more

text citations.

 

 

 

text citations.

 

 

applied.

some

needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

inappropriate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sources.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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