Essay Study Guide
Use a WORD document and bring the hard copy on the final semester exam date. This will be your pass to take the exam. The paragraph below will help you understand what Explain means when you answer the essay questions.
Clarify a topic by giving a detailed account as to how and why it occurs, or what is meant by the use of this term in a particular context. Your writing should have clarity so that complex ideas or reasons can be understood, defining key terms where appropriate, and be substantiated with relevant research.
1. You are a teacher in the school setting, a sport instructor in a community setting working with senior citizens, or a fitness leader in a corporate fitness program working with adults. Explain how you would incorporate each of the following concepts in to your program: readiness, reinforcement, motivation, and individual differences (Chapter 5)?
2. How can social inequalities in sport be addressed and should there be changes? Who can make such changes? And if there are or are not changes, how will this impact the youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional levels (Chapter 8)?
3. Name two Professional Associations in our field and then explain why belonging to Professional Associations as a student and a professional are an important part of your growth and development in the field of Exercise Science, Sport, and Physical Education (Chapter 11 in text).
4. Explain how an individual’s lifestyle and habits may be a deterrent to a state of fitness and health. What rationale would you use to persuade a friend or a relative who was tired all the time, feeling overwhelmed by stress, and over weight to start a physical fitness program? What excuses may be offered for not being active? How could you counter these excuses (Chapter 7)?
5. Explain the importance of advocacy programs in the physical education, exercise science, and sport setting of your choice. What local organizations exist in your current community that offer health promotion programs? How would you work to organize these groups into a coalition to promote physical activity (Chapter 15)?
