NZQA registered unit standard
21644 version 3
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Title
Review personal performance as an official in a competitive sports
event
Level
3
Purpose
Credits
3
This unit standard is designed primarily for people seeking to
further develop their skills as a sports official.
People credited with this unit standard are, as an official in a
competitive sports event, able to complete a match report,
record and evaluate personal performance, and develop and
implement a plan to improve personal performance.
Classification
Recreation and Sport > Sport Officiating
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
This unit standard relates to the learning areas Practical Officiating and
Communication Skills (under Game Management) from Calling the Game:
Developing Quality Officiating. This is the national framework for developing sports
officials and is available at http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/communities-andclubs/Toolkit-for-Officials/Learning-Areas/.
2
Evidence requirements for assessment as an official are detailed in Assessment
Guidelines for each sport code and can be obtained from Skills Active Aotearoa
Limited info@skillsactive.org.nz on request.
3
Definitions
An event, in the context of this unit standard, may refer to a match, competition, race,
game, tournament, or other competitive sporting fixture.
Participant primarily refers to the competitor but may also include spectators,
coaches or other sport team members.
Sport rules and regulations refer to the rules and regulations of the sporting code
used for assessment and also the rules and regulations of the specific sporting event
used for assessment.
In the context of this unit standard, emotional intelligence is defined as the capacity
for recognising our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for
managing our own emotions.
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Complete a match report, and record and evaluate personal performance as an official, in
a competitive sports event.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Completed match report includes record of all match details required by the
sport rules and regulations.
Range
1.2
Key personal judgements, decisions, recommendations, and/or actions are
identified.
Range
1.3
match details include but are not limited to – date, venue,
participants, competition results, other officials, specific incidents.
judgements and decisions, recommendations and/or actions may
include but are not limited to – signalling and communication;
positioning; consistency; management of conflict; management of
participants, coaches and spectators; management of stoppages;
own relationship with other officials; safety of venue, equipment
and participants.
Key personal judgements, decisions, recommendations, and/or actions are
evaluated according to the requirements of the sport rules and regulations.
Range
requirements may include but are not limited to – official’s code of
conduct, accepted safety practices, interpretation of the rules and
regulations of the sport, intent of the rules and regulations of the
sport, accepted positioning and communication practices,
participant management protocols.
Outcome 2
Develop and implement a plan to improve personal performance as an official in a
competitive sports event.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Areas of personal performance as an official that require improvement are
identified in accordance with the results of the self-evaluation in evidence
requirement 1.3.
2.2
Changes to improve the quality of officiating in the identified areas of personal
performance are identified.
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2.3
A plan is developed to implement the improvements in personal performance
identified in evidence requirements 2.1 and 2.2.
plan may include but is not limited to – action; practice; use of
video to monitor performance; feedback from other officials,
coaches, participants; timeframes.
Range
2.4
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Changes to performance are implemented in accordance with the plan.
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
20 November 2006
31 December 2012
Review
2
18 June 2010
31 December 2012
Rollover and
Revision
3
20 May 2011
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, or
an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can
report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading
to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Skills Active Aotearoa Limited info@skillsactive.org.nz if you wish to
suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
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