Business Management 2013
Sample assessment instrument
Feasibility study: Operations (Robotics)
This sample has been compiled by the QCAA to help teachers plan and develop assessment
instruments for individual school settings. It demonstrates the following dimensions:
 Knowing and understanding business management
 Applying and analysing management strategies
 Evaluating and communicating management strategies
Assessment instrument
Comments
The task assesses all
three dimensions and
provides students with
opportunities to:
Context
You have been conducting an investigation into:
 manufacturing processes and practices in South-East Queensland
 the importance of efficiency in achieving business goals.
Task
As a business proprietor, you wish to improve your business operations.
This includes determining the feasibility of introducing robotics to replace
one production process. (Your teacher will provide choices for the type of
business.)
situations using
examples
 explain management
strategies
 select and organise
business information
from primary and
secondary sources
 apply knowledge to
identify issues in
business situations
 analyse business
information and
management
strategies and
interpret trends,
patterns and
relationships.
Conditions
Year 12
 Written response 800–1000 words
 Students may use class time and their own time to conduct research
and develop a response.
Guidelines
 Conduct primary and secondary research to gather data on the
business, its operations and the business environment.
 Complete a SWOT analysis to select and organise your research.
Your feasibility study will:
 describe the current business situation
 explain the current operational processes for the stage of production
 consider the SWOT analysis and apply your knowledge to identify a
range of issues with the current operational process
 analyse how the issues you have identified link to operational efficiency
and effectiveness of the business.
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 describe business
Comments:
The task provides
students with
opportunities to:
 evaluate management
strategies to formulate
recommendations
 justify
recommendations
using evidence
 communicate using
language conventions
 evaluate the strategy to improve operational processes using robotics
and the impact it will have on the business
 recommend whether it is feasible to implement the new strategy
 provide evidence to justify your recommendation.
Note:
 Include primary and secondary research into the feasibility study.
 You may use bullet points, charts and diagrams in the feasibility study.
 Appendixes are not appropriate to this task.
to suit audiences and
purposes.
Business Management 2013
Sample assessment instrument
Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority
April 2015
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Applying and analysing management strategies
Knowing and understanding
business management
Instrument-specific standards matrix
Standard A
Standard B
Standard C
Standard D
Standard E
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
 thorough description of
 detailed description of
 description of business
 simple description of
 statement of elements of
business situations using a
comprehensive range of
relevant examples
 comprehensive
explanation of complex
management processes
and strategies.
business situations using a
range of examples
 detailed explanation of
management processes
and strategies.
situations using examples
 explanation of
management processes
and strategies.
business situations
business situations using
few examples
 cursory explanation of
 statement of management
simple management
processes and strategies.
processes or strategies.
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
 purposeful selection and
 purposeful selection and
 selection and organisation
 partial organisation of
 statement of business
organisation of business
information from a
comprehensive range of
valid primary and
secondary sources
 discerning and systematic
application of knowledge in
business situations to
identify a comprehensive
range of issues
 thorough and discerning
analysis of business
information and
management strategies,
and accurate interpretation
of a comprehensive range
of trends, patterns and
relationships.
organisation of business
information from a range of
valid primary and
secondary sources
 systematic application of
knowledge in business
situations to identify a
range of issues
 detailed and informed
analysis of business
information and
management strategies,
and accurate interpretation
of a range of trends,
patterns and relationships.
of business information
from primary and
secondary sources
 application of knowledge in
business situations to
identify issues
 analysis of business
information and
management strategies,
and interpretation of
trends, patterns and
relationships.
Business Management 2013
Sample assessment instrument
business information from
sources
 simple application of
information
 statement of issues
knowledge in business
situations to identify issues
 partial analysis of business
information or
management strategies,
and identification of some
trends, patterns and
relationships.
 statement of trends,
patterns or relationships.
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Evaluating and communicating
management strategies
Standard A
Standard B
Standard C
Standard D
Standard E
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
 thorough and insightful
 detailed evaluation of
 evaluation of management
 simple evaluation of
 description of
evaluation of management
strategies to formulate
valid and purposeful
recommendations
 well-reasoned justification
of recommendations using
relevant evidence
 coherent communication
with discriminating use of
language conventions to
suit audiences and
purposes.
management strategies to
formulate valid
recommendations
 valid justification of
recommendations using
relevant evidence
 clear communication with
appropriate use of
language conventions to
suit audiences and
purposes.
strategies to formulate
recommendations
 justification of
recommendations using
evidence
 communication using
language conventions to
suit audiences and
purposes.
management strategies to
state recommendations
 simple justification of some
management strategies or
statement of simple
recommendations
 statement of opinions
recommendations
 communication using
inconsistent language
conventions.
 communication that
impedes meaning.
This standards matrix has been made instrument-specific by specifying the
context and genres and deleting any objectives not being assessed in this task.
Business Management 2013
Sample assessment instrument
Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority
April 2015
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