Agility & Field Testing W9

Question 1

What’s fitness?

Answer 1

Overall physical condition of the body.

Question 2

Both ways we’d measure fitness. With advantages and disadvantages for both.

Answer 2

Lab Based data collection:

• Advantages are higher validity, control variables & measure preciciously what you want to.
• Disadvantages are low levels of ecological validity & expensive

Field Based data collection

• Advantages are it mimics performance environment (ecological validity), cheaper & more accessible.
• Disadvantages are Cannot control all variable & difficult to claim internal validity.

Question 3

What makes a good test? (3 answers)

Answer 3

• Validity
• Reliability
• Objectively

Question 4

What’s content Validity?

Answer 4

• Refers to how an experiment covers all facets (sides) within the domain being assessed.

Question 5

What’s Criterion-related Validity?

Answer 5

• Refers to if the experiment’s results relate to the criterion measured.

Question 6

What’s Concurrent Validity?

Answer 6

• Refers to another criterion-related validity.

- Determined by relating results of a group to a criterion measure alongside the test.