Transcript A starter's guide to controlled assessments for GCSE in Applied Business (PPT, 82KB)

Controlled Assessments
for GCSE Applied
Business
A starter’s guide
Let’s just say that
You want to enter candidates next June,
2010, for their Controlled Assessments.
What do you do first?
Look at OCR’s Interchange website.
Ask your Exams’ Officer to look if you do not have
access. You will need to be assigned the
‘Tutor/teacher’ role to access the controlled
assessment materials.
What will you be able to download
from Interchange?
• The 2010 Controlled Assessments for units:
• A242 – Making your mark in business. Candidates will choose one business
scenario from a selection of five. They then choose a local business on which
to base their subsequent business and complete all the tasks.
• A244 – Business and you. Candidates will choose one job role from a
selection of five and investigate a range of human resource activities in
relation to this role.
You will also be able to download the accompanying mark schemes for these
controlled assessments.
What next?
• Plan your research.
• Prepare your candidates for researching and
carrying out their tasks.
And then?
Carry out the research; you can do this as a class
and then pool the data.
Ask your candidates to carry out their own research
(Note: you need not supervise this).
What about the writing up?
• For the task the actual writing up MUST be done in
school, under close supervision and in controlled
conditions. Candidates must carry out this part of the task
individually.
What about using material from the
Internet, books etc?
This is OK, as long as they clearly credit the
reference within the body of their work, and not
just in a general bibliography at the end.
Think
• It’s not a memory test – controlled conditions are
there to prevent cheating, not the legitimate use
of research materials.
And any notes they bring in?
• You need to be able to authenticate the work as being
by the candidate and not by their friend or their Mum…..
• So take in and scrutinise any notes they bring in before the
write-up starts. Allow them to use the notes during the writeup lessons but always collect in and keep secure at the end
of each lesson.