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

and clearly statedEg.

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

Correspondence

A business letter should be prepared

requesting permission from the firm to

conduct the project.

Gathering Data

The information you

choose to collect should

be specific to your

project

Methodology

Questions

Schedule

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

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

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.

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.

Bibliography

This is a list of sources from where you got

the information to complete the project.

Sources include:

• Persons interviewed

• Publications

• Internet sites