Badminton · Level 8: Expert · Sub-level 8.2
Coaching Children
10 tests · 100 facts · updated 29 October 2026 · markdown
What badminton gives children, maturing at different rates, the growth spurt, adapting the sport, learning styles, demonstrating, the stages of learning, questioning, feedback and keeping children safe.
Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.
Test 1What badminton gives childrenTake a test
A big influence.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Emotional growth.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Tactics are puzzles.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Social growth.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Health habits.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Success is learning.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
The manual's table.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Fun and skills first.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Problem solving.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Test 2Maturing at different ratesTake a test
Different rates.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Physical, intellectual, emotional, social and training ages.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Years of regular training.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Individual needs.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Physical maturity can mislead.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Emotional maturity.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Development varies.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Calendar, body, practice.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Notice, set, adapt, review.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Different rates of maturing.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Test 3The growth spurtTake a test
A period of rapid growth.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Girls tend to be earlier.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
A stable body and a maturing nervous system.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
A temporary clumsiness.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Growth plates and flexibility.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Patience and care.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Reassure.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
10 early, 14 late.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Notice, reassure, reduce, maintain.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Rapid growth period.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Test 4Adapting the sportTake a test
Easier control.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Net shots at shoulder height.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Slower objects give time.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Slow flight.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Another go at serving.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Equal practice.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Rewards shape practice.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Slow to normal.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
As the manual lists them.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · recall
Adapted equipment.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 4 · applied
Test 5Learning stylesTake a test
The VAK model.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Seeing.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Hearing.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Doing.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Moving learners.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Show them.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Ask and adapt.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
V, A, K.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
See, hear, do.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Seeing themselves.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Test 6DemonstratingTake a test
Visual learning.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Let the eyes work.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Racket side mainly.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Flight then shape.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Several sources.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Full attention.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Brief reinforcement.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
I, D, E, A, S.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Set, show, shape, say.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Visual focus.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Test 7The stages of learningTake a test
Fitts and Posner's stages.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
1967 model.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Working out what to do.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
The intermediate phase.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Automatic skill.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Simplicity.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Challenge.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Beginner to expert.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Simple to match-like.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Automatic skill frees attention.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Test 8QuestioningTake a test
Thinking players.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Short answers.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Longer answers.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Open starters.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
An open question.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Quick facts.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Problem solving.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Closed to open.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Open reflection.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
How invites thinking.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Test 9FeedbackTake a test
Information.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Feedback drives learning.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Internal.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
External.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Keep it simple.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Independence.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
A balanced sandwich.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Praise, improve, praise.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Watch, wait, ask, tell.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
The feedback sandwich.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Test 10Keeping children safeTake a test
Safeguarding.
Source: General badminton reference · recall
Emergency details.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Proper procedure.
Source: General badminton reference · recall
Consent.
Source: General badminton reference · applied
Safety awareness.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Collision risk.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 11 · applied
Eye injuries from the shuttle.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 11 · recall
Check, register, rules, start.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · recall
Stop, check, help, inform.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 11 · recall
Safety first.
Source: BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 3 · applied
Sources
BWF Coaches' Manual Level 1 (2017), BWF regulations and history, Olympedia; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Numbered rules belong to the Rules category (Badminton - Laws of Badminton).
- BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 354
- BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 440
- General badminton reference3
- BWF Coaches' Manual L1, Module 113