The School-Based
Assessment
The School-Based Assessment (SBA) portfolio provides an opportunity for you
enables you lo apply and further develop lo develop your artistic talent and creative
the knowledge, skills and altitudes that you abilities. However, display documents must
learn during this course. The SBA is worth be constructed to facilitate easy reading and
40% of your final examination score and efficient use.
consists of the following components:
• The portfolio.
• Assignment 1 - Working with a Guidelines for preparing the
manuscript. portfolio
• Assignment 2 - Research project to be
disseminated via email. 1 Each specimen must be labelled clearly
• Assignment 3 - A slide presentation. lo indicate which document is being
presented, e.g. two-page indented teller
with enumeration.
The portfolio 2 Each specimen should include your name
in the header or footer (consistently).
The portfolio is a compilation of 10 of the 3 Specimens may be prepared in any order.
documents that you have learnt to prepare. However, before submission they should
It will serve as a reference book that you be arranged in logical order, numbered
can use at job interviews and in the actual and put together in a folder.
performance of your duties at work. Each 4 The folder should include the following:
document must be of mailable standard. (a) Table of contents.
By now you know that this means that the (b) Title page.
document should be neat, completely free of (c) Bibliography listing the resources
errors and prepared according lo established used by the cand idate,
guidelines. The display component of the
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Contents of the portfolio
Table 30.1 Contents of the portfolio
Section Items Skills to be demonstrated
A letters (i) Two-page indented or blocked The ability to produce multiple-page
style letter documents, e.g. SBAs, thesis or reports with
continuation pages
(ii) A circular letter or form with a The insertion and use of symbols, tabs with
tear-off slip leader dots, circular documents, form and form
filling, e.g. questionnaires in SBAs
B Manuscript A report or specification or play The use of page endings. continuation page.
(with actor's part) reports, footnotes and endnotes, types of
headings, margins, script formatting, font
usage and superscript
C Tabular work A ruled table with main heading and Applying oblique or vertical heading and A-Z
multiple columnar headings formatting
D Committee (i) A notice of a meeting with an Producing the correct layout for committee
documents agenda for a meeting documents
(ii) A chairman's agenda or minutes
of a meeting
E Display (i) An invitation with a menu or Insertion of shapes, lines, symbols, clip art,
programme (a creative design SmartArt, correct page layout and presentation
should be used)
(ii) A flow chart or organisational
chart (with or without use of a
template)
Flegal work (i) A lease or hire purchase Utilising the correct layout for legal documents
agreement or a will with an
endorsement
(ii) A contract of employment
Assignment 1 Assignment 2
Your teacher will provide a manuscript Your teacher will provide a topic on which
containing amendments and correction signs you will do some research using the Internet.
for you to type in the classroom within a You must summarise the information
specified time. This is a teacher-supervised obtained and prepare a bibliography. The
activity. The manuscript must be saved on a information must be saved on a removable
removable medium and printed. medium. The file containing the research
project must then be simultaneously
d istributecl to several recipients via email.
The activity at the end of Unit 23 (the Email
Project file) will help you lo apply the
requirements for Assignment 2.
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Assignment 3 Other consolidation exercises
Your teacher will provide a scenario or The following To do exercises will help you
topic for which you must prepare a slide lo reinforce the skills you have acquired
presentation. You are required lo save your and assist you in preparing for your final
presentation on a removable medium and examinations.
make a printout of the slides.
The activities in Unit 18 are designed to
help you with this assignment.
Working with graphics Legal, technical and literary documents
1 Design a flow chart to illustrate the process of 1 Your neighbour has discovered that you know
filling a vacancy in a company. how to prepare leases and has come to you
2 Visit a business in your community. Write a for assistance. Type a fair copy of a lease for
description of the organisational structure of her.
the business. Draw an organisational chart of 2 Prepare a bill of quantity for the construction
the business. of a wall at the front of your house.
3 Your school has just had a highly successful 3 Type an actor's script for any character in a
reunion. Compose the press release. scene from any of Shakespeare's plays.
4 Prepare the storyboard for a short skit.
Letters
5 You have formed an association for EDPM
1 (a) Your expensive cellphone is
students. Prepare a two-page newsletter with
malfunctioning after only three months of
any three of the following feature articles:
use. You visit the store from which you
(a) Managing diversity in the workplace.
bought it but the service representative
(b) How to care for your computer.
informed you that it can neither be
(c) Computer tips and tricks.
replaced nor repaired. Write a letter of
(d) New computer games on the market.
complaint to the manager.
(e) How to make your own music CD
(b) You are the manager of the cellphone
compilation.
store mentioned in (a) above. You
Working with wizards investigate the matter and the service
1 Use the memo wizard to compose a representative tells you that the
memorandum to all students from the evidence shows that the phone has
principal informing them that school will be been immersed in water. Write a
dismissed at 12.45 p.m. on Wednesday. 12 response to the complaint.
May20XX. 2 You decide to purchase a computer as a
2 Use the agenda wizard to prepare an agenda result of an advertisement in the Daily Express
for a meeting of the Lawson Village Sports newspaper. The advertisement states that it
Club. will be sent to your home, cash on delivery.
3 Use the resume wizard to compose a resume Type and print an order letter showing the
for a friend or relative seeking employment. specifications in a bulleted list.
4 Use the letter wizard to compose an 3 (a) You are interested in purchasing a range
application for a job that was advertised in the of office equipment for an employment
daily newspaper. agency that you intend to open. Write a
Creating forms letter of enquiry to M C Business
1 Design an employment application. Supplies.
2 Your firm has decided to offer a scholarship (b) You are the sales manager of M C
to sixth-form students. Design an appropriate Business Supplies. Write a reply
application form. including a table.
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