Junior cycle students will receive a new Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement (JCPA). The JCPA will reflect a much wider range of your child’s achievements over the three years of junior cycle. The JCPA will report on a number of areas, including:
Subjects
Classroom Based Assessments
Short courses
Other Areas of Learning
All subjects have been revised and each one has its own specification replacing what was previously known as a syllabus.
What does that mean for students in Skerries Community College?
The biggest change for our Junior Cycle students is the introduction of Classroom Based Assessments (CBAs) and Other Areas of Learning (OALs). The exam itself is no longer the only means of sharing our students’ progress. The specifics of each element of the above JCPA (Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement) are explained below:
Classroom Based Assessment (CBAs)
Students will undertake two CBAs.
CBAs in all subjects are assessed at Common Level.
These assessments will cover a broad range of activities including oral tasks, written work of different types, practical or designing and making tasks, artistic performances, scientific experiments, projects or other suitable tasks depending on the subject in question.
CBAs will be undertaken by students within class time to a national timetable.
CBAs are assessed, during the SLAR process (school based), under the following descriptors:
CBA 2 is linked to an Assessment Task (AT).
This is a written Task to be submitted to the State Examinations Commission (SEC)
It is allocated 10% of the marks used to determine the grade awarded by the SEC.
The AT is directly related to the nature and focus of CBA 2.
*Due to COVID 19, changes have been made to some of the above requirements.
