Sport Technology, Criterion A

Sport Tech Strands

Sport Technology Unit Criterion A: Inquiring and Analysing Summative

Challenge

Many sports have problems that can be solved easily by introducing new or existing information
 technology solutions. The digital solutions can transform a sport in terms of publicity, accessibility, 
tutorials,  or enhance the organization's and the documentation of the sports operations.
Your task is to identify a sport related challenge that can be addressed or solved using an IT based 
solution or introduce a new sport in the community. The problem should be clearly described and the 
client's current way of addressing the situation described. The problem description should include the
 current limitations the client is facing and detailed explanation of why you think an IT solution will be the best. 

Criterion A: Inquiring and analysing

Maximum: 8

Students identify the need for a solution to a problem. At the end of year 4, students should be able to:

      i.        explain and justify the need for a solution to a problem for a specified client/target
 audience : 1 page. discuss the sport's problems and how long it has persisted,  show how it has affected the client 
and community, show how the client is in dire need for solution, .

     ii.        identify and prioritize primary and secondary research needed to develop a solution to the problem: 
2 pages. A table of research plan indicating questions relevant from primary and secondary sources. 
A summary of the feedback from research.

Task	Priority	Why is it        important	Sources	Completion date

   iii.        analyse a range of existing products that inspire a solution to the problem:
4 pages: analyze 5 applications relevant to the IT tools you chose by using a table. 

Application	Advantages	Limitation

analyze 5 existing  products created to solve similar problems in sports. (paragraph)

    iv.        develop a detailed design brief, which summarizes the analysis of relevant research. 
2 pages.

- write a detailed design brief that outlines, the client/target audience opinion, the experts opinion, and your 
personal opinion. discuss the IT tool you will use, discuss the key features of the tool, specifications  and 
its benefits to the client based on your research.

Capture; key concept- Systems, related concept- Ergonomics/Innovation and global context-Scientific and Technical Innovation

1. In-Text Citation.

In - Text Citation allows the reader to know what ideas, opinion and facts are the author's and what came from the source. The citation also refers the reader/ examiner to the reference page at the end for full citation.

In APA style, in-text citation are composed of author's last name, date/year of publication and the page number. (Truner, 2003,p.34).If you include a page range, use two ps followed by a period (Wafula, 2015, pp.34-35). The sentence period comes at the end of closing parenthesis.

 Additional information

 1. one author stated "..................",(Tally, 2003, p.6).

2. Two authors said, "...................",(Tally,& Deifan,2003, p.7).

3. Three to five authors ".............", (Tally, Daifan,&Mohamed, 2003, pp. 45-46).

4. Six or more authors, ".............",(Tally et al,2003, p. 17).

5. Unknown author use short title (" hip hop art", 2006, p. 7).

6. No date no page  (" hip hop art", n.d, para.1).

 Read more on this link In-Text citation

2. Appendix/appendices.

An appendix (one item) OR appendices (more than one item) is information that is NOT ESSENTIAL to explain your findings in the essay or report that you have written. However, this information may support your analysis and justification of your conclusions. For example the interview questions and answers.

 Therefore, you will need to know that: 

● Appendices are used when the incorporation of material in the body of the work would make it poorly structured or too long and detailed.

( Interviews, questionnaires, surveys and their answers can be placed in appendix)

● Appendices may be used for helpful, supporting or essential material that would otherwise clutter, break up or be distracting to the text. ( images, photocopies, drawings, sketches,...)

● Other people’s work in the appendix will be referred to (e.g. see Appendix 3), not quoted (e.g. using short or long quotes) from the appendix.

 ● Appendices must be referred to in the body of the text, for example, ‘details of the questionnaire are given in Appendix B (on page 23)’

Examples of students’ understandings about using appendices Student 1 (reflective writing) 

This example is about a two-page questionnaire that I designed and placed in the appendices. My understanding is that an appendix can be information that you used to inform your writing that you don't want to put directly into the essay; however, you MUST refer to this appendix in the body of the essay Therefore, in my Education essay, I included an appendix that was the actual questionnaire that I gave to my students when I was on teaching practice. In my essay, I wrote for the marker to ‘see Appendix 1’ when I had mentioned the results of the questionnaire I was required to write and use with my class.

 Student 2 (reflective writing)

 In my nursing assignment, my appendices were used to supplement the information in my essay. Firstly, we had to demonstrate our knowledge of the human skeletal system. The photocopied diagrams covered a number of pages, so Appendix 1 was a set of photocopied, labelled diagrams of the skeletal system discussed and referred to in the essay. Because the photocopied diagrams were copied from a book, I placed an in-text reference to this source in my writing. Secondly, we had to summarize the results of interviews with five patients at the local hospital about their recovery from bone breakages in car accidents, so Appendix 2 was a transcript of these interviews. Using appendices like this meant that I could show my lecturer that I had completed the set task and collected the data for the issues that were discussed in the essay

More information on appendix click on this link  How to use Appendix
Great resources to help you are Bibme http://www.bibme.org/ or Easybib http://www.easybib.com/ Remember to select APA style.

3. Reference - APA