Year 9 Commerce
Running a Business
Length: You will be presenting a 5 - 6 minute
visual or oral (or combination) presentation in pairs.
Marks /
value: 15% of
course mark.
Date due: Presentations begin Week 9.
Purpose of
this assignment
To work towards
these outcomes:
5.3
Examines the role of law in society
5.5
Evaluates options for solving commercial and legal
problems and issues
5.6
Explains commercial and legal information using a
variety of forms
5.8
Works independently and collaboratively to meet individual
and collective goals within specified timelines
Analyse your
role in the Running a Business project and assess the class project
from the perspective of Year 9 Commerce.
Assignment Details
Define the Task
# Analyse your role in the Running
a Business project.
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What
was your role in the project?
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What
tasks did you perform?
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Did
your team work cooperatively and efficiently toward agreed outcomes? Why/Why
not?
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What
could you as an individual or your team as a whole of done more effectively?
# Assess the Running a Business
project from the perspective of Year 9 Commerce.
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Was
there a market for your product?
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Was
the product suited to the market that the class selected?
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Was
our idea feasible/realistic?
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As a
business enterprise, was the product successful? Why/why not?
In your answer you will also need to
focus on all of the following in
sufficient detail:
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Your
personal involvement in the Running a Business project.
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The
role of your department and its successes/failures.
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Finance/administration
of the product.
- The choice of product and its appeal to the target market selected.
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Look over any
notes and plans you made during the entire project development process. Recall
what was done and make notes that will assist you to answer the questions
above.
Select and
Analyse
Your information
can be in the form of text, images, graphs, tables, statistics etc.
Organise and
Synthesise
Your information
needs to be organised logically into sections that reflect the parts of the
task set out in Define the Task above.
Create and
Present
Your oral
presentation should be creative, realistic, informative and interesting. You
should use presentation technology (such as PowerPoint, hyperlinked documents
iMovie etc) that will assist you to convey your information
clearly and concisely.
Marking
Criteria
YEAR 9 COMMERCE
ORAL MARKING CRITERIA
|
OUTCOME |
EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTY |
DEVELOPING |
COMPETENT |
HIGHLY COMPETENT |
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|
Presentation |
Speech contains no real structure; a collection of loose
sentences. Unclear speech, no eye contact. Little or no use of presentation
technology./1 |
Limited use of structure. May have an interesting
introduction, but often no real conclusion. Speech too loud, soft, quick or
slow. Limited eye contact. Some use of presentation technology. /2 |
Evidence of planning. Interesting introduction; speech has
intro/body/conclusion - well thought out. Reasonably clear speech, eye
contact. Reasonable use of presentation technology. /4 |
Well planned. Intro/body contains detailed information. Interesting throughout with a satisfying conclusion. Clear speech with varied tone and pace. Comfortable eye contact. Good use of presentation technology. /5 |
Well planned and highly interesting. Intro/body contains
carefully selected detail. Well argued conclusion. Clear speech
with varied tone and pace. Confident eye contact. Seamless use of presentation technology. /6 |
|
Explanation of roles and purpose of the project |
Limited explanation of roles and purpose of the project.
/2 |
Explains few aspects of individual role and purpose of
the project. /4 |
Basic explanation of individual / team role and the
purpose of the project. /6 |
Individual's / team's role and purpose of project explained in some detail. /7 |
|
|
Analysis and evaluation of project process and justification
of target market |
Little analysis or evaluation, with no evidence to support
statements. /3 |
Attempt at a basic analysis and evaluation, but lacking
in detail or brief. Limited knowledge of commercial information and concepts.
/5 |
Basic analysis of
process. Applies knowledge of commercial information and concepts. Some evaluation
of project. /8 |
Thorough analysis of the process. Displays
sound commercial knowledge. Evaluation of the project. Able to use
appropriate evidence to support most statements. /10 |
Thorough, detailed analysis of all aspects of the process.
Displays wide commercial knowledge. Well reasoned evaluation of project.
Able to use appropriate evidence to support statements. /12 |
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Selects and organises commercial information |
Very limited use of commercial information. /2 |
Limited use of
commercial information. /4 |
Uses some commercial information. /6 |
Uses a range of relevant commercial information. /7 |
Uses a broad range of relevant commercial information. /8 |
|
Use of time |
< 2 mins >10 mins /1 |
< 3 mins > 9 mins /2 |
< 4 mins > 8 mins /4 |
< 5 > 6 mins /5 |
5 - 6 mins /6 |