Classroom Based Assessment 1

CBA 1 is usually conducted in second Year. Students will be given the opportunity to actively engage in a practical and authentic learning experience that reflects activities undertaken regularly in the business environment. you will act as consumers, entrepreneurs, managers and decision-makers as you plan and conduct research, analyse data and information, problem-solve and make decisions, use digital technology to manage information, and take action. You will learn and make informed decisions about, your own resources and issues of social, cultural and global importance. These are essential skills required for life, work and further education. 

Business in Action provides students wilt the opportunity to actively engage in a practical and authentic learning experience that reflects activities undertaken regularly in the business environment. Students will act as

  1. consumers,

  2. entrepreneurs,

  3. managers and

  4. decision-makers

as they

  1. plan and conduct research,

  2. analyse data and information,

  3. problem-solve and make decisions,

  4. use digital technology to manage information, and

  5. take action.


They will learn about, and make informed decisions about, their own resources and issues of social, cultural and global importance. These are essential skills required for life, work and further education. Students are given three options from which to choose a Business in Action project:

  1. Enterprise in Action

  2. Economics in Action

  3. Finance in Action.


Business in Action is a group project. It comprises four areas of activity:

  1. conducting research,

  2. evaluating information,

  3. developing action plans and 

  4. reporting findings.


Students should collaborate with classmates in order to complete the project but teachers should ensure that each student makes an individual contribution to the project, and produces evidence to meet the features of quality of this assessment.

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