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Guidelines
on the SBA - Part II
Yvonne
Harvey, Contributor
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Kingston
College students shot on the
school premises on September
27, 2005.
- Ricardo Makyn Photo
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THIS
WEEK I will continue to guide you in
completing your School Based Assessments
(SBA'S). Some general guidelines were
given last week. Now I will go into
some specifics, starting with the outside
cover.
The
wording and illustrations on the outside
cover of the SBA should be well arranged
and not crowded. At the top of the
cover should have the following:
PRINCIPLES
OF BUSINESS SCHOOL
BASED ASSESSMENT
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A
simple design or picture may follow
and then the topic or title of the
SBA. You will remember that last week
I gave some suggestions regarding
the title or topic. At the bottom
left or right-hand corner should be
the following information:
NAME
OF STUDENT:
REGISTRATION
NUMBER:
NAME OF SCHOOL:
TERRITORY:
YEAR: |
The
detail on the outside cover should
be repeated on the first page. The
actual SBA should be organised as
below:
I
will now look at each area in some
detail.
ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
METHOD
OF DATA COLLECTION
INTRODUCTION
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
PROFILE
1 ORGANISATIONAL PRINCIPLES
(report)
PROFILE
2 PRODUCTION AND MARKETING
(report)
PROFILE
3 FINANCE AND INTRODUCTION
TO ECONOMICS (report)
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
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ABSTRACT:
This should give a brief idea of what
the project is about. An example of
the abstract is shown below:
This
School Based Assessment will investigate
the factors contributing to the success
of ABC Company. The findings of this
investigation will be presented under
three profile headings:
Profile
1: Organisational Principles
Profile
2: Production and Marketing
Profile
3: Finance and Introduction to Economics
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
This should be presented on the
back of the abstract page. It should
recognise all the persons who have
assisted you in any way where the
SBA is concerned. This includes persons
who gave guidance, invaluable information
and moral support.
METHODS
OF DATA COLLECTION:
In this section, you will indicate
the instruments you used to obtain
the information in your SBA, i.e.,
you will outline how you gathered
data for your project. If a questionnaire
was used, you should also state that
a copy of the questionnaire is placed
in the appendix. Interview questions
should also be placed in the appendix.
Please note that copies of your questionnaire
and interview questions should be
clean copies, i.e., without any responses.
If observation was a part of your
method of data collection, you should
also make this clear.
INTRODUCTION:
A
brief history/ background of the business
should be presented in this section.
It should not be a repetition of the
abstract, neither should it go into
any of the information that will be
outlined in the project profiles.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS:
This should be under the profile headings
and should indicate page numbers for
each sub-topic under the appropriate
profile. Conclusion, bibliography
and the appendix must also be listed
in the table of contents as the last
three headings outside of the three
profile areas. A variation to this
style is to include the abstract,
acknowledgements, method of data collection
and introduction in the table of contents
with a different style of page numbering
e.g.
Next
week I will outline the conclusion,
bibliography and appendix. In addition
I will give you the detail on each
profile. See you then.
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| ABSTRACT
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| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
ii
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| METHOD
OF |
iii
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| DATA
COLLECTION |
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INTRODUCTION
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| Profile
1 |
1
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Organisational
Principles
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| Form
of Business |
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| Aims
and Objectives of the Business |
2
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| Organisational
Structure 3 of the Business |
3
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for all profiles) |
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Yvonne Harvey teaches at Glenmuir
High School.
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