PGA PGM Level 2 Test (Teaching &

Coaching) Questions and Verified Answers|

100% Correct| Grade A (2023/ 2024)

Q: What should teachers expect their students to learn from the feedback they provide for the

purpose of improving or maintaining performance?

Answer:

Teachers role is to help the student sharpen his or her own ability to understand the error, detect

the error by feel and then eventually correct that error; feedback provides knowledge.

Q: What should students learn from instruction given to improve or maintain performance?

Answer:

Students learn to associate the appropriate correction with each performance error, so when the

error occurs again, they know how to correct it.

Q: A teacher watches a student leave a ten-foot putt short and then informs her that the putt

needed to be hit with more speed. What type of feedback is this an example of?

Answer:

Relevant Augmented Feedback

Q: The teacher's role is to help the student improve his own ability to do what?

Answer:

Sharpen his own ability to understand the error, detect the error by feel, and then eventually

correct that error.

Q: A teacher shows frustration when a student performs a skill incorrectly. To avoid this

response in the future, the student focuses on correcting the skill movement. What is this an

example of?

Answer:

Augmented feedback as negative reinforcement

Q: What type of results can augmented feedback that functions as positive or negative

reinforcement produce?

Answer:

positive atmosphere which helps continues the students efforts or increased motivation.

Encourage the student to exhibit positive behaviors or habits.

Q: When a training aid is used correctly, and skill performance suffers, where does the

concurrent KP direct the student's attention?

Answer:

Away from the relevant intrinsic feedback and the student is unable to interpret the intrinsic

feedback properly and they cannot replicate the skill performance.

Q: When augmented feedback is used as punishment, when is it most effective?

Answer:

When it focuses on the behavior the student did not the student themselves. To get the student to

learn to stop an undesirable behavior.

Q: What does research suggest when a student has more control over the learning process?

Answer:

They use a much lower relative frequency of augmented feedback than the frequencies

employed by researchers. Students become more actively engaged in the learning process.

Q: Can a student improve performance without learning taking place?

Answer:

Yes, there are situations in which KR or KP can improve the performance, but not the learning

of golf skills.

Q: What is good reason for delivering error augmented feedback over non-error feedback?

Answer:

Error augmented feedback involves more cognitive effort which keeps the student more engaged

in the learning process than presenting only correction augmented feedback. When a student is

more engaged and must think critically to solve a problem, deeper learning and a more thorough

understanding of the error correction occurs.

Q: Generally speaking, why do advanced players need more descriptive knowledge of

performance feedback than beginning players?

Answer:

Students at an advanced skill level benefitted more from the use of unguided video feedback

than beginners. Advanced players know what to look for and how to utilize the information

given based on their previous experience.

Q: Will beginners typically benefit more from video feedback than advanced players?

Answer:

No, beginners needed a teacher's information because they do not know what to look for or what

to do with the information provided by video feedback.

Q: When using video during practice, what can be more harmful than if the player has not used

video feedback?

Answer:

Changing the camera angle a few degrees or slightly changing the height of the camera.

Q: What is the likely cause of a performance decline after a student has been using a training

aid?

Answer:

When they only execute the skill properly when it is performed with the training aid. When the

aid is removed, performance suffers.

Q: Seeing one's swing in a mirror is an example of what type of augmented feedback?

Answer:

Visual Knowledge of Performance (KP)

Q: A student reading her spin rate data from a launch monitor is an example of what type of

augmented feedback?

Answer:

Terminal KR

Q: When is the best time to provide terminal augmented feedback?

Answer:

After swing is complete to wait for a delay to allow student to react and evaluate.

Q: What is the effect of giving augmented feedback less frequently while learning takes place?