How to Grade Volleyball Techniques for Scoring

Assessing and scoring volleyball skills and techniques can be done with a detailed chart. Different parts of the basic skills, serving, passing, setting and attacking are observed and scored according to how well the player executes the skill. Coaches use totals for each skill and an overall score to help select players for a team or to show players areas where they can improve.

Instructions

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      Make a grading or scoring chart to assess the basic volleyball skills. Across the top of the chart write the headings "Poor," "Below Average," " Average," "Above Average" and "Excellent". These headings will correlate with the values one through five, which will be assigned per skill for each player.

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      Make an entry on the left-hand side of the chart for each of the basic volleyball skills you are scoring. Write down "Serving" and underneath this write "Tosses ball in front of the serving shoulder," "Ball is contacted above the head," "Starts with the weight on the back foot," Steps forward with the opposite foot from the hitting hand," "Contacts the ball with the heel of an open hand" and "Follows through after contact."

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      Write the next entry, "Passing" and underneath this skill write "Gets into position quickly," "Extends arms with locked elbows to provide a platform for the ball," "Hips and shoulders point toward target" and "Uses legs for power."

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      Enter in the next skill, "Setting." Under this entry write "Contacts ball above and in front of the forehead," "Uses the finger pads to contact the ball," "Bend in the knees" and "Hips and shoulders point toward target."

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      Make another entry for the skill "Attacking." This is sometimes referred to as "hitting." Under this write "Takes three steps when approaching the ball," "Gets into position quickly," "Uses both legs to jump," "Full arm extension at ball contact," "Contacts ball in front on hitting shoulder" and "Snaps wrist at contact."

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      Write down five more entries at the bottom on the chart for the skill scores. For example, write "Serving Score," "Passing Score" and so on. The fifth entry will be "Overall Score."

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      Assess a volleyball player's technique. For each part of a skill, use the numbers one through five and place this number under the appropriate skill level heading. For example, if the player has an excellent wrist snap when attacking the ball, write a five under the "Excellent" heading corresponding to this entry under the skill "Attacking." Continue to observe and score the different parts of each skill.

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      Add up the points for each skill and write this figure next to the appropriate skill score at the bottom of the chart. Add all the scores together and write this figure next to the "Overall Score" entry.