This document provides guidelines for completing a School Based Assessment (SBA) project on office administration for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC). It outlines the required sections and content for the SBA, including: 1. Preparation with a title page, aim, and correspondence letter. 2. Gathering data through a methodology outlining data collection and analysis, questions asked during research, and an activities schedule. 3. Addressing regulations by stating relevant legislation, how it was learned, health and safety practices observed, and staff rules complied with. 4. Presenting findings in a report on results and recommendations, and explaining the use and suitability of office equipment for tasks.

1. Guidelines for
CSEC
Office Administration
School Based Assessment
Prepared by: Lisa B Arnold

2. 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

3. Preparation(13 mks)
Title page
Aim
Correspondence

4. 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

5. Aim
Your aims should be unambiguous
and clearly stated
Eg.
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.
.Functions of the procurement department
 determine items to be purchased
 liaise with other departments
 manage inventory

6. Correspondence
A business letter should be prepared
requesting permission from the firm to
conduct the project.

7. Gathering Data
The information you
choose to collect should
be specific to your
project
Methodology
Questions
Schedule
Regulations

8. 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

9. 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

10. Schedule
A schedule of activities
for conducting the
project. It should be in
the form of a table with
headings showing dates
activities and comment
Activities Date Comment
Topic was chosen
for project
Jan 1,
2015
Wrote
Correspondence
for the firm
Jan
2,2014

11. Regulations
As a visitor to the firm you
would have to be aware of
some of the regulations,
staff rules, health and safety
practices that applied to the
work environment.
You are required to state:
1. One piece of legislation governing
the work place.
2. An explanation of how you became
aware of this legislation.
3. One health and safety practice
observed
4. One staff rule with which you had to
comply in carrying out the Project
stated.

12. Presentation
Your information should
be presented in a
logical manner and
includes:
Report: must include findings and limitations of
the project along with recommendations.
Office Equipment: explain the impact of the
equipment used in the business selected.
Equipment Date Purpose Suitability
for task
Facsimile Jan 15,
2015
Faxed a
purchase
order to
Chin Lin
Supermarket
Both firms
have
Internet
access the
order could
be
emailed.

13. Bibliography
This is a list of sources from where you got
the information to complete the project.
Sources include:
• Persons interviewed
• Publications
• Internet sites