Dugdill, L., Crone, D. & Murphy, R. (2009). Physical Activity & Health Promotion Evidence-based approaches to practice. Chicester: Wiley-Blackwell

This module will examine how evidence-based physical activity interventions can be put into practice. Selected interventions designed to increase levels of physical activity will be reviewed in these areas;
a) Individual approaches (e.g. referral services)
b) Health education and community based approcahes (e.g. point-of-decision prompts, mass media campaigns and interventions aimed at targeted groups)
c) Settings based approaches (e.g. workplace and school based interventions)
d) Ecological approaches (e.g. natural experiments and strategies to improve access and promote physical activity in natural environments

Students will be encouraged to reflect on how each type of approach fits within a multi-level model of physical activity promotion and the need for multi-strategy approaches. Efficacy, effectiveness, evaluation methods and barriers to implementing physical activity interventions will be examined.

Students will be required to complete 2 pieces of summative assessment.

The 4500 word assignment will require students to produce a written outline of how you would design, implement and evaluate a physical activity intervention for either
a) a community-wide, or
b) a specific setting-based approach.
This should pay particular attention to resource issues, longer term sustainability and the threats to validity of your measures of effectiveness. weighted at 100% assessing LO's 1 to 3

and

contribute 500 words to a WIKI weighted at 0% pass/fail assessing LO1

Both elements of assessment must be passed

Students will receive formative feedback throughout the module comprising of a combination of task related feedback and also comments directed through discussion boards during the course of the delivery of the module.

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: (3 hours)
face to face tutorials and Blackboard feedback via skype

Guided Independent Study: (297 hours) - representing a combination of further and additional reading and a series of optional tasks (96 hours) and specific preparation for the module assignments (105 hours)

Students will follow a twelve week guided study programme and access support material via Blackboard. Students will be required to access additional support material independently. Core required tasks will amount to an average of 8 hours of engagement per week, representing a total of 96 activity engagement hours for the module.

This module will adopt a collaborative approach to learning where, via a series of on-line discussions (that will form part of the assessment process) students will demonstrate their developing understanding of often different and divergent approaches to the control and coordination of sport related skill.

Central to this approach will be a series of on-line debates or discussion issues that will arise out of the 'Activities' and accompanying 'Tasks' undertaken within the module. Students will be required to initially outline, defend and subsequently reflect on a position or viewpoint offered, that will be critically commented on by fellow students.

Access to an appropriately specified PC, with accompanying Word, PowerPoint, Adobe and Java software
Access to electronic versions of appropriate Journals and texts