The Lesson Constructed Response Question Format:
Write Your Own Questions

The Lesson Design and Analysis Constructed Response Questions follow a general format and it isn't hard to make up your own practice constructed response questions.  In fact, making up your own questions is a great way to study for the test.  I have included guides to formatting constructed response questions in this section.  I suggest that you look closely at the way the constructed response questions are formatted and that you write practice questions of your own. 

The Lesson Question Format

Choose one of the skills listed below:

1. Describe 3-5 critical elements of the skill you have chosen.

2. Describe an activity that is appropriate for 15-year-old boys and girls who are proficient in the skill. Your description of the activity should show how it would provide the opportunity for the participants to demonstrate mastery of the critical elements you described in Part I.

3. Describe an activity that is appropriate for 12-year-old boys and girls who are familiar with the skill but not yet proficient in it. Your description of the activity should show how it would enable the participants to improve their mastery of one of the critical elements you described in Part I.

4. Describe an activity that is appropriate for 8-year-old boys and girls who have little or no experience with the skill. Your description of the activity should show how it would prepare participants to learn one of the critical elements you described in Part I.

5. Describe an activity that is appropriate for 5- and 6-year-old boys and girls who have little or no experience with the skill. This activity should be of a general or fundamental nature and should not be specifically related to the sport you are addressing. Your description of the activity should show how it would prepare participants for the activity you described in Part IV.

6. Identify one principle of motor learning, motor development, exercise physiology, or biomechanics that can justify or explain some aspect of one or more of the activities you have described in response to Parts II-V, and show how that principle justifies and/or explains that aspect of the activity or activities.