Controlled Assessment
Useful Downloads
Candidate Record Sheet Component 2
(PDF), Last Updated: 11 November 2011
Candidate Record Sheet Component 3
(PDF), Last Updated: 11 November 2011
Controlled Assessment Student Guide
(PDF), Last Updated: 20 January 2010
Non-Centre Controlled Activity Form
(PDF), Last Updated: 04 August 2011
Revised GCSE Student Guidance Physical Education Controlled Assessment Component 2: Developing and Maintaining a Balanced Healthy Lifestyle Student Lifestyle Profile
(DOC), Last Updated: 16 August 2010
Revised GCSE Teacher Guidance Physical Education Controlled Assessment Component 2: Developing and Maintaining a Balanced Healthy Lifestyle
(PDF), Last Updated: 28 July 2011
Teacher Guidance Physical Education Controlled Assessment Component 3
(PDF), Last Updated: 31 January 2012
Students must complete controlled assessment tasks for Component 2: Developing and maintaining a balanced, healthy lifestyle and Component 3: Individual performance in physical activities. The controlled assessment tasks are worth 60 percent of the final award.
The following skills are assessed through controlled assessment:
- planning and implementing actions to develop and maintain a balanced, healthy lifestyle;
- developing competence in different types of physical activity, in different roles and contexts within the activities;
- selecting and applying tactics, strategies and compositional ideas; and
- analysing and evaluating performance and identifying room for improvement.
Component 2 Task
The controlled assessment task for Component 2 is worth 20 percent of the final award. It is available in summer only.
Students are assessed on their evidence of:
- developing and maintaining balanced, healthy lifestyles; and
- analysing, evaluating, planning, implementing, and monitoring actions to maintain a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
The teacher must supervise all the tasks.
Component 3 Tasks
The controlled assessment tasks for Component 3 are worth 40 percent of the final award.
(a) Analysing, evaluating, planning, implementing and monitoring actions to improve skilled performance in selected physical activities
Students are assessed on their evidence of:
- evaluating performances to identify strengths and areas for improvement;
- deciding and prioritising actions to further improve their performance of the skills; and
- monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of carrying out these actions and the effectiveness of these actions.
(b) Improving the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of individual performances in physical activities
Students’ competence is assessed by evaluating the quality, efficiency and
effectiveness of their individual performances in three different physical activities from at least two of these categories:
- athletic-type activities;
- dance-type activities;
- games-type activities;
- gymnastic-type activities;
- outdoor adventure-type activities; and
- specialist activities.
For one physical activity, students may be assessed on their performance as a leader and official.
For more information, see the specification.