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The components will test Problem- Solving and Programming as well as the application of processes
involved in the use of Database Management, Spreadsheets and Word-Processing and Web Page
Design. The five components will therefore cover the Specific Objectives in Sections 4, 5, 6, 7 and
8.

Types of Projects

Teachers should develop assignments that expose the students to realistic applications which
involve, but are not limited to the following areas:

(a) business (for example, storing and managing employee, customer and sales records,
marketing);

(b) banking (for example, creation of different types of accounts, loans, interest, payments
on loans, fixed deposits, investments);

(c) education (for example, enrollment in schools, academic record-keeping);

(d) entertainment (for example, analysis of data on distribution and sales of movies, music,
electronic games);

(e) environment (for example, records of storms and hurricanes over specific periods and
in named territories, calculation of cost of damage to infrastructure, housing, livestock,
farms);

(f) law enforcement (collection and management of crime statistics collection and analysis
of data on offenders, cost of maintaining prison populations);

(g) medicine (for example, managing patient records collection and analysis of data on diseases
over a period of time and in various locations);

(h) monitoring (for example, analysis of data on accidents at intersections, counting and
categorising visitor arrivals in Caribbean territories); and,

(i) sports (for example, collection and processing of data on athletes’ sport meetings).

Word-Processing

This assignment should consist of the formatting, importing and/or documentation of information.
The assignment must be chosen from TWO of the following:

(a) a document containing a table of contents and/or prepared for mass mailing;

(b) use of templates (such as memos, reports, faxes, simple brochures, flyers) or newspaper
articles; and,

(c) a fillable form using the Developer. It should comprise no more than four controls (for example,
text box, drop-down list, check box or date picker). The controls can be used more than once
when designing the form. Manipulation of the controls should be limited to renaming labels
and prompts (tags), and adding drop-down list properties;

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