This document provides guidance on evaluating the effectiveness of an athlete's personal development plan (PDP) for volleyball. It instructs the athlete to evaluate one element of their PDP in three parts: 1) Identify the element, 2) Provide judgement on how it impacted their development, and 3) Discuss the value/effect it had. Specifically, this document focuses on evaluating the training environment. The athlete is asked to consider if training inside or outside was more beneficial, how the conditions impacted their motivation, skills, and preparation for games. Positive and negative examples of evaluating the training environment are provided.

1. INSPIRE AND TRANSFORM St Joseph’s Academy, Kilmarnock
National 5 PE
3d
Evaluate the effectiveness of your PDP in
Volleyball (6)

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Today…
we will continue to evaluate elements of our PDP: We are
doing this over numerous PPTs. This is part five.
To do this successfully we should acquire the knowledge that will
allow us to answer the following question;
Evaluate the effectiveness of your PDP in Volleyball (6)
As we have previously covered, when evaluating we must provide
identification, judgement, as well as value in our answer.

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Again, as mentioned in previous PPT’s…
When you are asked to evaluate you are being asked provide your opinion
on whether something you have carried out was effective or not. To do this
successfully and gain a mark you must provide 3 parts to your answer (the
same way we would when using the PEgI structure).
Part 1 is your IDENTIFICATION. Here you must identify an element of your
plan that you are going to evaluate and state whether it was effective or
not.
Part 2 is your JUDGEMENT. This is quite similar to an example in a PEgI and
involves you providing details of the plan that you found effective or
ineffective.
Part 3 is your VALUE. This is where you explain the value this part of the
plan had or did not have on you. It is very similar to an impact in a PEgI
answer.

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Now lets think about other areas we can evaluate – WHAT ARE WE
EVALUATING?:
We are now moving away from the SOFITT acronym and looking
at other elements of our PDP.
Today, we are going to focus on the ‘environment’ in which we
carried out our PDP.
Therefore the ‘question’ we are answering today is:
Evaluate how effective the environment was in which you carried
out your PDP (1)
Let us evaluate exactly where you trained and if this was of value to you or
not.

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Mrs Shaw’s email
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In today’s lesson we will consider the environment in which we carried out
our PDP. Was the environment for our PDP effective or not? Would it have
been more beneficial to have been working in a different environment –
somewhere else?
Environment – During our PDP, it was necessary for us to perform our
training OUTSIDE. This was out with our control due to the exceptional
circumstances, but was it beneficial to our training, or did our progress
suffer because of it?
Let us now evaluate whether the environment in which we carried out our
PDP was effective or not.

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Let’s start to
EVALUATE if the
ENVIRONMENT
you trained in was
beneficial to you

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NOW … think about the environment you trained in:
 WHERE did you carry out your PDP – inside / outside?
 Was it a good environment to train in?
- Were the conditions consistent?
- Was it easy to set up the equipment?
 Did the environment you trained in…
- Make you feel comfortable / uncomfortable?
- Motivate you / Demotivate you?
- Help you to improve?
- Always make it easy for you to perform the necessary skills?
- Sometimes make it difficult for you to perform the skills of the
game?

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POSITIVE
During my plan I feel that the environment I trained in was effective …
OR
NEGATIVE
During my plan I feel that the environment I trained in was not effective…

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Judgement:
We carried out our volleyball training outside. This was due to
the exceptional circumstances of Covid 19 and due to the
restrictions surrounding this. We would take all the equipment
outside and set it up on the 3G all-weather pitch (/ other).

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Value (+):
Training outside helped me because
1. I always looked forward to getting outside into the fresh air. This
motivated me and meant that I was always in the right mind-set for my
training sessions. As such high effort levels meant….
2. There was a lot more space outside than indoors. This meant that my
group and I had plenty of space to work and therefore we weren’t
working too close to other groups. As a result, we had less interruptions
/ interference from other groups which allowed us to…
3. I felt more relaxed when training outside, due to the fact that there was
more space, as well as other things going on around us, such as other
classes. This made me feel less ‘exposed’ and that there was less focus
on me which…
4. Due to the variable weather, this made me concentrate even more to be
able to play the correct technique and / or follow the flight path of the
ball to get to it in time. This better prepared me for games because…

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Value (-):
Training outside was not effective because:
1. I never looked forward to training outside because it was often
cold. This demotivated me and meant that I was usually not in
the right mind-set for my training sessions. As such, this
affected my effort levels and meant….
2. The weather conditions were unpredictable. Sometimes it was
difficult to perform because it was extremely cold. This meant it
was difficult to play various shots because my hands were so
cold. This resulted in…
3. The weather conditions were unpredictable. Sometimes it was
raining which meant… This resulted in…
4. The weather conditions were unpredictable. Sometimes it was
sunny, which were nice conditions to be playing in because I
wasn’t too cold, however when the sun was shining brightly…
This often resulted in…

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Mrs Shaw’s email
debbie.shaw@eastayrshire.org.uk
(08/03/2021)
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EVALUATE if the environment that you trained in was effective, or not, in
improving your performance throughout your PDP (1)