Assessment of skill and performance is important for monitoring progress and providing guidance for future training. Knowing the characteristics of skilled performers helps to guide the coach in skill assessment to ensure performance is moving towards mastery of the particular skill.

Assessment of skill and performance often uses objective and subjective measures to determine how well the skill or performance was executed. For HSC PDHPE it is important to know the difference between object and subjective performance measures as well as how reliability and validity of test increased their objectivity. 

There are a number of sports that require particular criteria to be used to assess performance. However, even at the basic level, most people watch a performance with a particular bias and person expectations, which they use as criteria in judging a performance.

Finally, you are required to apply this knowledge and create your own subjective and objective performance measures, which you then evaluate.

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Past HSC PDHPE exam questions (2012-2022)

2014 Question 28

How can the skill and performance attributes of athletes be validly and reliably appraised? 8 Marks

2015 Question 27

Why are both objective and subjective performance measures appropriate in the assessment of an athletic performance? 5 Marks

2016 Question 25

Using examples, distinguish between valid tests and reliable tests of athletic performance. 5 marks

2018 Question 26

Evaluate how the characteristics of a skilled performer can be used to appraise elite performance. 7 marks

2022 Question 22

Compare the use of personal and prescribed judging criteria when assessing the performance of athletes. Provide examples to support your answer. 5 marks