Assessment Type 1: Diagnostics (30%)

Students undertake two or three diagnostics tasks.

They participate in one or more physical activities (sports, theme‑based games, fitness and recreational activities) to collect, analyse, and evaluate evidence to demonstrate contextual application of knowledge and understanding of the focus areas and movement concepts and strategies.

Students extend and apply skills in collecting reliable and ethical evidence, including the use of technology (e.g. apps and video analysis tools), existing data collection methods (e.g. standardised fitness tests, GPAI), and/or developing their own data‑collection tools.

Diagnostics tasks can include key ideas and considerations from one or more focus areas such as:

• the effect of the interplay of energy systems on physical performance and recovery
• the role of fitness testing in the measurement and monitoring of fitness
• biomechanical analysis and evaluation of a performer compared to an elite performer
• analysing factors that affect the learning process, such as signal detection, selective attention, anticipation, and/or reaction time
• the impact of physiological factors on physical performance, such as fatigue, anthropometry, gender, and/or body composition
• the role of psychological strategies to enhance performance, such as perception of effort, goal setting, mental rehearsal strategies, and/or feedback methods.

Students may present evidence of their learning in various formats, for example:

• blog or vlog
• website or webpages
• mock TED talk
• infographic
• presentation
• video diaries
• report incorporating analysis of practical diagnostic data and discussion of implications for performance
• tutorials
• collaborative investigation and presentation.

The combined evidence for two or three diagnostic tasks should be a maximum of 18 minutes for oral or multimodal presentations, or a maximum of 3000 words.

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning in relation to the following assessment design criteria:

• application
• analysis and evaluation.