Methods of presenting practice

Question 1

Whole practice

Answer 1

Skills or practice as a whole not broken down into subroutines

Question 2

Advantages of whole practice

Answer 2

+ Good for high organisation skills
+ Promotes kinaesthetic awareness
+ Useful for Simple, continuous skills

Question 3

Disadvantages of whole practice

Answer 3

• Difficult to learn complex skills this way
• Can overload novice performers

Question 4

Whole-part-whole practice

Answer 4

Skill is performed as a whole, a
weakness is identified to practice, then the skill is practiced as a whole again

Question 5

Advantages of whole-part-whole practice

Answer 5

+ Good for serial skills
+ Enables some kinaesthetic
awareness
+ Useful for complex skills which can
be clearly separated into subroutines

Question 6

Disadvantages of whole-part-whole practice

Answer 6

• Time consuming
• Not useful for highly organised skills
• Can reduce kinaesthetic
  understanding of skills

Question 7

Progressive-part practice

Answer 7

Also known as chaining. The first part of a skill is learned and then the rest of the parts are added in sequence

Question 8

Advantages of progressive-part practice

Answer 8

+ Useful for low organised and serial skills
+ Enables understanding of how the subroutines interact, increasing success and motivation
+ Aids correct timing of each routine

Question 9

Disadvantages of progressive-part practice

Answer 9

• Disjointed feel to the skill, affecting
  the flow
• Time consuming