Designing a Cooperative Game
Cooperative games have these five characteristics:
1. Maximized participation
2. Maximized opportunities to learn the skills of the game
3. No emphasis on scoring
4. Maximized opportunities for success
5. Ample positive feedback
Use the five characteristics of cooperative games, restructure a traditional basketball game to
make it less competitive and more cooperative. Document your responses here, and add as
many new guidelines as you wish.
Guidelines for a Cooperative Basketball Game
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From R.S. Weinberg and D. Gould, 2019, Foundations of Sport
and Exercise Psychology Web Study Guide, 7E (Champaign,
IL: Human Kinetics).
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