Student Instructions

Internal Assessment Resource

2025

Achievement Standard Physical Education 91500: Evaluate the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme. 

Credits: 4 Version: 2

Achievement
Evaluate the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme.
Achievement with Merit
Evaluate, in depth, the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme.

Achievement with Excellence

Critically evaluate the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme.

Student instructions

This assessment activity requires you to evaluate the effectiveness of a training programme that you will take part in as preparation for participating in Tough Guy & Gal.

Your evaluation, will be assessed on the extent to which you critically evaluate the effectiveness of the programme. This will involve: making coherent, insightful judgements by questioning and challenging assumptions about the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme; and using those judgements to identify and justify what modification(s) may be made to improve the effectiveness of the programme. You will not be assessed on the quality of your training programme.

NCEA Level 3 PE – AS 91500
Critical Thinking Questions for Evaluating a Performance Improvement Programme (Tough Guy & Gal)

✩ Goal Setting ✩

• What was the main goal you set for this training programme?
  
  

• How does this goal demonstrate the SMARTACE principles?
  
  

• How did your goal evolve (if at all) over the course of the programme?
  
  

• Was your goal actually appropriate for your current level of fitness and context? Why or why not?
  
  

• What unexpected barriers made the goal more/less achievable?
  
  

• If you were to set your goal again, what would you change—and why?
  
  

🏋️ Methods of Training (MOT)

• What main methods of training were you focussing on using for your programme? Why?
  
  

• What energy systems and changes to your body would you be expecting to see through these methods?
  
  

• What long-term responses to exercise did you expect to see from this?
  
  

• Did the methods of training actually target your goal as expected? Why or why not?
  
  

• Were there any mismatches between the MOT and the demands of Tough Guy & Gal?
  
  

• What assumptions did you make about which methods would work—and were those assumptions correct?
  
  

• What specific changes to your body (e.g. VO2 max, lactate threshold, muscular endurance) did you observe that can be linked back to your MOT?
  
  

📈 Training Principles

• What training principles were the most important for your programme?
  
  

• How did these principles link with your training goals and methods of training?
  
  

• How should these principles have helped you see the long-term responses to exercise you were targeting?
  
  

• Which training principle was least effective in practice—and why?
  
  

• Were there any training principles you overlooked that might have improved results?
  
  

• How well did the balance between frequency, intensity, time, and type match the actual demands of the event?
  
  

• If your training wasn’t effective, which principle was misapplied or neglected?
  
  

🧠 Sport Psychology

• What aspects of sport psychology were going to be the most important during your training programme? Why?
  
  

• How did you plan on making sure you utilised these appropriately/positively?
  
  

• How did these sport psychology principles help your methods of training?
  
  

• How did these sport psychology principles help your training principles?
  
  

• Which psychological strategies did you plan to use—but didn’t actually implement well? Why?
  
  

• Did any psychological strategies backfire or have unintended effects? Explain.
  
  

• In what ways did your mindset change across the training weeks—and how did this affect your results?
  
  

• If you were training a friend for the same event, which psych strategies would you recommend based on what you learned—and which would you avoid?
  
  

🌍 Sociocultural Factors

• What sociocultural factors had the biggest influence on running your programme effectively? Why?
  
  

• How did these factors influence the methods of training and training principles you used?
  
  

• How did these factors influence the sport psychology you were using?
  
  

• What assumptions did you make about support, motivation, or access—and were they accurate?
  
  

• How did your cultural background, gender, whānau, or school environment either support or hinder your training?
  
  

• If another student from a different background did your exact training plan, how might their results be different—and why?
  
  

• Which sociocultural factor had the biggest unexpected impact on your motivation or consistency?
  
  

⟳ Overall Evaluation & Modifications

• If you had to do the training again with only one change, what would it be—and why would that make the biggest difference?
  
  

• Which component (goal, MOT, principles, psych, sociocultural) turned out to be the most critical for success—and why?
  
  

• Was your training programme effective in context—given your available time, resources, and motivation?
  
  

• What would a better programme for you look like, not just on paper, but realistically?