School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Motor Behaviour
  • Unit Code

    SPS3333
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Caitlin FOX-HARDING

Description

In this advanced unit, students will learn how to support and enhance improvements in human performance. They will apply concepts and theories of motor control, learning and psychology as they evaluate contemporary issues in exercise and sports science. Students will apply a range of research methodologies to collect information about clinical and elite sporting populations. Students will be required to review relevant literature to better understand best practice, and will collect and analyse data to inform their knowledge of practical implications.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed SPS2622 and SPS2516

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Use theories of Motor Control & Learning and Psychology when evaluating human performance.
  2. Apply knowledge of best practice in Motor Control & Learning and Psychology to inform appropriate research methodology selection.
  3. Analyse qualitative and/or quantitative data to address research questions.
  4. Interpret and report outcomes using data visualisation techniques to various target audiences.

Unit Content

  1. Foundational and contemporary approaches to issues in motor behaviour
  2. Development of skills and expertise
  3. Sensory and perceptual control of movement
  4. Diversity and inclusion in health and sporting environments
  5. Psychosocial control of movement
  6. Quantitative and qualitative research techniques

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 12 x 7 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Project

Students undertake an activity in collaboration or consultation with an industry partner but do not spend any time or only a very small amount of time  (e.g. 1-2 short visits) in an actual workplace.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will actively participate in all laboratory activities demonstrating knowledge and application of the content from the required readings. Students will work collaboratively in small groups to complete the data collection and analysis for each topic.

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
PortfolioLaboratory and journal entry30%
AssignmentConcise review + protocol (methodology) paper of Motor Control, Learning and Psychology30%
ReportTarget audience report40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioLaboratory and journal entry30%
AssignmentConcise review + protocol (methodology) paper of Motor Control, Learning and Psychology30%
ReportTarget audience report40%

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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