BAS221 SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY Mid-term Task brief & rubrics
Task: Individual Essay
• Students will write an individual essay on the influence of psychological factors on Sports performance.
• The Essay is to be self-reflective: Examine your own experiences and growth together with a situation that you have lived yourself or very close to you.
• The essay should address the following aspects:
o An initial introduction to the situation
o An approach that explicitly deals with Performance aspects
o The level of participation (amateur or professional athletes)
o Surrounding factors (Family-related, Competition-related, and others)
• The student must address all these parts with a self-reflective style and conclude with the learning aspects of the experience.
• Academic sources are needed whenever talking about Sports Psychology theories. Please use Google Scholar, EBSCO or similar.
Submission: Week 10 – Sunday 3rd April 2022, at 23:59 CEST (via Turn-it-in).
Weight: This task is a 30% of your total grade for this subject.
Formalities:
• Wordcount: Between 2000 and 2500 words.
• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
• Text alignment: Justified.
• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
• Critically assess the influence of psychological factors on the behavior, performance, and level of participation of both individuals and groups in sports
• Identify a range of psychological issues that occur for athletes in sport settings.
Rubrics
Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69
Knowledge &
Understanding
(15%)
Student demonstrates
excellent understanding of
key concepts and uses
vocabulary in an entirely
appropriate manner.
Student demonstrates
good understanding of the
task and mentions some
relevant concepts and
demonstrates use of the
relevant vocabulary.
Student understands the
task and provides minimum
theory and/or some use of
vocabulary.
Student understands the task
and attempts to answer the
question but does not
mention key concepts or uses
minimum amount of relevant
vocabulary.
Research
(35%)
Student makes a fully
relevant research of the
major topics included in
the task, using well
referenced understandings.
Student makes a good
relevant research of the
major topics included in
the task, using mostly well
referenced understandings.
Student makes a fair
research of some of the
major topics included in
the task. Some references
are good but some might
not be entirely adequate.
Student does not research
the topic and/or stays on the
surface of it. References are
missing or not included.
Analysis
(35%)
Student uses the
knowledge learnt in class
to analyse the topic
assigned in an excellent
manner, drawing
stimulating insights.
Student uses the
knowledge learnt in class
to analyse the topic
assigned in a good way,
identifying interesting
insights.
Student uses the
knowledge learnt in class
to do a fair analysis of the
topic assigned, albeit
omitting some important
parts.
Student makes an insufficient
attempt at analysing the
topic provided. Insights
drawn are very limited or
inexistent.
Communication
(15%)
Student communicates
their ideas extremely
clearly and concisely,
respecting word count,
grammar and spellcheck.
Student communicates
their ideas clearly and
concisely, respecting word
count, grammar and
spellcheck.
Student communicates
their ideas with some
clarity and concision. It
may be slightly over or
under the wordcount limit.
Some misspelling errors
may be evident.
Student communicates their
ideas in a somewhat unclear
and unconcise way. Does not
reach or does exceed
wordcount excessively and
misspelling errors are
evident.
