School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Assessment of the Football Player
  • Unit Code

    SPS2209
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Mark SCANLAN

Description

This unit is a practical unit in which students will gain an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of athlete assessment as it relates to football (the codes of soccer and Australian rules football) and gain practical experience administering laboratory and field based tests of muscular endurance, strength, power, aerobic endurance, agility, anthropometry and flexibility in this cohort of athletes. Emphasis will also be placed on data analysis, report generation, interpretation of test results and considerations such as allometric/dimensional scaling will be addressed.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will be required to attend 6 hours of screening and testing for football teams.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the principles of testing and screening for football teams.
  2. Apply and demonstrate different field and laboratory tests for the codes of football.
  3. Analyse and interpret football test data and generate reports for the coaches, fitness staff and football players.

Unit Content

  1. Principles of testing in football.
  2. Selecting appropriate tests for football players of varying age, gender and playing status.
  3. Standardisation of the testing environment.
  4. Assessment of anticipation and decision-making skills in football players.
  5. Field and laboratory based assessment of muscular strength, power, straight line speed and repeated sprint ability in football.
  6. Field and laboratory based assessment of aerobic fitness.
  7. Assessment of programed and reactive agility in a football context.
  8. Measurement of anthropometry in football.
  9. The role of flexibility in the football player.
  10. The ability of assessment data to discriminate between playing status and position.
  11. Data analysis, report generation and interpretation of test results.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus: Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU LMS. The students will be engaged in testing methods and screening football teams.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExaminationMid semester examination35%
Laboratory WorkLaboratory assessment30%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination35%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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