Literature Review Coursework Report

FACULTY OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & COMPUTING –

SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES

BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Science; Exercise, Nutrition & Health; Sport Analysis & Coaching.

LEVEL 5

LS5013 Sport & Exercise Psychology II: Coursework Guidelines for the Executive Summary

Assessment Guidelines:

This assessment accounts for 30% of the total module assessment and has a word limit of 1500 words.

This Executive Summary must be submitted (Via Turnitin UK) on the studyspace for this module, no later than 10am on 13/12/2013. Late submissions will be subject to the faculty late submission policy.

Learning Outcomes being assessed:

Discuss theories of sport and exercise psychology;
Demonstrate how psychological theories can be applied to sport and exercise settings;
Critically discuss methodological issues related to sport and exercise psychology research and limitations of theories in sport and exercise psychology;
Demonstrate key skills of communication (group discussions; making a presentation; reading, selecting, extracting, and collating information from appropriate sources; produce written materials), numeracy (data collection; recording data, evaluating data; performing calculations), ICT (produce a document that incorporates and combines different types of information; search for, retrieve, and store information using ICT resources), teamwork, and develop independent learning skills.

Assignment Brief

As a precursor to your group presentation, you are required to individually submit an independent executive summary of the research literature associated with the theory you will present. This should be a critical review of the existing literature in this area and thus you should highlight the strengths and limitation of this body of research. Your review should conclude by suggesting ways in which this body of literature could be developed by providing example directions for future research.

You will be provided with more guidance as to the structure of this executive summary throughout the module.

FACULTY OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & COMPUTING –

SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES

BSc (Hons) Sport Science; Exe

Strengths of assessment:

Areas to improve your grade:

rcise Nutrition and Health; Sport Analysis & Coaching

LEVEL 5

Unit: LS5013: Executive Summary

Criteria	Mark (%)	Your Mark	Feedback Comments
It is expected that for this assignment the student will analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources such as textbooks and journals to demonstrate understanding and to aid critical review.
Introduction Provide a clear introduction to the area and its significance to sport and exercise contexts	10
Ability to describe relevant literature Be able to locate relevant research sources Be able to effectively describe and summarise the relevant literature	30
Ability to critique research and identify areas for future research Identify limitations of existing research Be able to effectively provide examples of future directions	30
Academic writing skills Clear and concise presentation of information Use of appropriate academic language, grammar and style	20
Correct referencing style. Ability to reference correctly (Harvard).	10
Total (%)	100