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Please Note

The SBA is designed to:

1. be an integral part of the teaching learning process;

2. test skills and abilities that cannot be adequately tested by external
assessment;

3. be a continuous assessment activity and not a one-shot attempt;
4. provide opportunities for teachers and students to individualize aspects of

the syllabus;

5. provide students with formative feedback as it is conducted over the course

of several months. This formative feedback should improve student learning
as they work through aspects of the SBA task; and,

6. allow the students to improve on initial attempts to develop the requisite
knowledge, skills and attitudes required to acquire the best possible score on

the activity.

The SBA should focus on:
1. the application of knowledge, skills and attitudes (for Science these will

include observation, investigation and experimentation);

2. opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship (for TVET subjects these

include design and development); and,

3. civic responsibility (for History these include researching and documenting).

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