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Guidelines For Csec: Office Administration School Based Assessment

This document provides guidelines for a school-based assessment project on office administration for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC). It outlines the required sections and content for the project, including a title page, aim, correspondence, methodology, questions, schedule, regulations, presentation on findings and office equipment, and bibliography. Students are instructed to investigate procedures for procurement and inventory management at a local business. The project seeks to evaluate the effectiveness and importance of purchasing procedures.

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Guidelines For Csec: Office Administration School Based Assessment

This document provides guidelines for a school-based assessment project on office administration for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC). It outlines the required sections and content for the project, including a title page, aim, correspondence, methodology, questions, schedule, regulations, presentation on findings and office equipment, and bibliography. Students are instructed to investigate procedures for procurement and inventory management at a local business. The project seeks to evaluate the effectiveness and importance of purchasing procedures.

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Guidelines for

CSEC
Office Administration
School Based Assessment

Prepared by: Lisa B Arnold


Topic for School Based Assessment

Office Orientation and Procurement and


Inventory Management.
Your title should come from any of these2 units. Your title should be a
statement of a problem in an issue, therefore it cannot be a question.
Eg.
1. To investigate the procedures employed by the Procurement Manager, for
purchasing goods at SEIT-DEH Bar and Grill Moreland Hill Westmoreland
Preparation(13 mks)
Title page
Aim
Correspondence
Title Page
Title page should
include project title and
names of candidate,
school and teacher,
territory, candidate
number.
I have put a template of the title page
on schoology.com
Aim
Your aims should be unambiguous .Functions of the procurement department
 determine items to be purchased
and clearly stated  liaise with other departments
Eg.
 manage inventory
This project seeks to find out
1. The effectiveness of the procurement
department in the purchasing of goods and
service for the firm.
2. How important each procedure used in the
procurement of goods for the firm.
Correspondence
A business letter should be prepared
requesting permission from the firm to
conduct the project.
Gathering Data
The information you Methodology
choose to collect should Questions
be specific to your Schedule
project Regulations
Methodology
This section describes the rationale for the application of specific
procedures or techniques used to identify, select, and analyze
information applied to understanding the research problem, thereby,
allowing the reader to critically evaluate a study’s overall validity and
reliability.
The methodology section of a research paper answers two main
questions:
• How was the data collected or generated?
• And, how was it analyzed?
The writing should be direct and precise and always written in the past
tense
Questions
List five questions asked to personnel of the firm. The exact
wording of questions asked and to whom they were
directed. The questions should be relevant to learning
more about the title of the project.
e.g.. 1. What are some of the documents used to facilitate purchasing?
2. Do use ICT to facilitate purchasing in the firm?
3. How do you ensure that you are purchasing goods of the highest quality at
the cheapest cost ?
4. What are some of the factors that influence purchasing procedures in the
firm?
5. How effective are the purchasing procedures in acquiring goods and
services
Schedule
A schedule of activities
for conducting the
project. It should be in Activities Date Comment

the form of a table with Topic was chosen Jan 1,


headings showing dates for project 2015

activities and comment Wrote


Correspondence
Jan
2,2014
for the firm
Regulations
As a visitor to the firm you 1. One piece of legislation governing
the work place.
would have to be aware of 2. An explanation of how you became
some of the regulations, aware of this legislation.
3. One health and safety practice
staff rules, health and safety observed
practices that applied to the 4. One staff rule with which you had to
comply in carrying out the Project
work environment. stated.
You are required to state:
Presentation
Report: must include findings and limitations of
Your information should
the project along with recommendations .
be presented in a
logical manner and Office Equipment: explain the impact of the
equipment used in the business selected.
includes:
Equipment Date Purpose Suitability
for task
Facsimile Jan 15, Faxed a Both firms
2015 purchase have
order to Internet
Chin Lin access the
Supermarket order could
be
emailed.
Bibliography
This is a list of sources from where you got
the information to complete the project.
Sources include:
• Persons interviewed
• Publications
• Internet sites

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