Paper 031,  

School-Based Assessment –  (SBA – 21% of Total Assessment)  

One  SBA will be required to complete both aspects of the English Syllabus:
English A and English B. 
A student who does English A only OR English B only OR English A and B will
be required to submit ONLY one SBA.  The SBA will be credited for both English
A and B. 
The SBA is expected to be done by each student working as an individual, and as a
member of a small group approved by the teacher where:   
1. individual refers to each student, who has responsibility for his/her own
portfolio;   
2. group refers to 4 – 5 students sharing a general topic, who work together to
discuss and solve problems, explain ideas, learn from peers, improve oral skills,
and practise social skills and leadership roles.    
The marks assigned to a student will consist of:   

1. his/her individual mark (Plan of Investigation, Oral Presentation, Reflection,

Participation Measure);   
2. the mark assigned to the group ( Quality of Group Behaviour, Written Report).   
PORTFOLIO  

Each student will create a Portfolio on an issue/topic/theme/event selected by the

students in the group and approved by the teacher.  The issue/topic/theme/event
will also be orally presented.  The issue/topic/theme/event selected should allow
for meaningful research and presentation.   
The Portfolio should include the following:  
1. PLAN OF INVESTIGATION:
An introduction to the issue/topic/theme/event (A satisfactory response should be
no more than 100 words).  
(a) Why did you choose this issue/topic/theme/event? 
(b) What are the expected benefits to you as a student of English? 
(c) How do you intend to collect relevant information on your
issue/topic/theme/event and use this in your presentation?  
2. PARTICIPATION MEASURE – A measure of the candidate’s individual
participation assessed by self and teacher.  
3. INDICATORS OF GROUP ACTIVITY :
A minimum of THREE pieces of material, for example, print, audio, visual media
must be collected and presented in the Portfolio and should address the
issue/topic/theme/event selected.  
One of the three pieces must be print.  
These pieces will form the basis for the process of enquiry and group work
activities (cognitive, psychomotor, affective) in which students will become aware
of and practise English language skills.  
4. REFLECTION :

THREE entries in which the student reflects on the issue/topic/ theme/ event

selected should be completed.
In the first entry the student must indicate how each piece of material helped to
shape his or her thinking about the issue/topic/ theme/event. 
The second entry should discuss the use of language in the material selected and
the third entry should state how the process of doing the SBA helped the student to
become a better person.
The reflection should be written in class under the teacher’s supervision.   
5. WRITTEN REPORT:
A written report of the investigation should be a summary of the processes,
procedures and outcomes of the research. 
It should include the material collected, reasons for selection and analysis of the
material. 
A satisfactory report should be about 250-300 words in total.  
6. ORAL PRESENTATION:
A personal response related to issue/topic/ theme/ event should be delivered orally
in 3 to 5 minutes.  
The oral presentation should be delivered predominately in standard English and in
a genre of the student’s choosing, for example, drama, poetry, prose, role play,
speech, argument, exposition.  
The student should deliver a brief overview of the presentation including the genre
chosen, the sources used and a comment on the kind of language used. 
A brief plan of the Oral Presentation must be submitted in the Portfolio. 

A Breakdown of the Reflection

1.  What should the English SBA Reflection entail?
Writing the three ‘Reflection’ entries means that the student working individually:
(a)   chooses three pieces of material related to the theme, one of which must be
print;
(b)   creates a first entry in which they record how each of the three stimuli affected
their understanding of and reaction to the theme;
(c)   creates a second entry which comments on the language techniques used, for
example, figurative language, emotional language, descriptive language, denotative
and connotative language, levels of formality, use of dialect, jargon; and,
(d)  creates a third entry which comments on how the process of doing the English
SBA on the selected theme has helped you to grow. For example, increased
understanding, competence, awareness, changes in behaviour, attitude, and world
view.
This last entry of the reflection should be delayed until close to the completion of
the SBA.
 2.  What is meant by ‘discuss the use of language’ in the reflection for the
English SBA?
When students discuss the use of language found in their selected stimuli (pieces of
material) they will comment on the techniques (word choice, figurative language)
used by the writer to communicate his/her message.  The discussion should
include:
(a)    identification of techniques; and,
(b)    comments on how these techniques helped/hindered the delivery of the
message (information).

Written Report Guidelines

WRITTEN REPORT (300 words)
This is a report on the research process. This also states the outcome of the
research.
You can answer these questions in your written report.
*What steps have you taken to get your work done?
*How did you collect the data?
*Are you happy with the pieces you have done?
*Are you happy working as a group?
*Did you learnt individually or as a group?
*Did you meet as a group?
*Do you think the group was effective working together?
What steps did you take as a group to get the work done?
·         Did you share resources?
·         Did you work co-operatively?
·         Did you help your group mate to edit and revise?
·         Did you research artefacts together?
·         Did you clarify information for your group?

A Breakdown of the Artefacts

The Artefacts/Data
Each Student must have three pieces of data/artefact based on their sub-topic.
These pieces can be:
Print 
(newspaper report, magazine articles,  expository articles, Journal Articles )
Audio
(song, interviews news report, podcast)
Video
(documentary,  news report, music video, movie, )
A sample of the article must be in the SBA portfolio.