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NCEA Level 1 Commerce

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mrs M. O'Carroll.

Commerce is the use and exploration of accounting, economic, and business concepts and models to make sense of society and solve problems. In this subject, ākonga will build the knowledge, skills, and values they need to navigate, and participate in, theeconomic world. They will learn how participants in the economic world make decisions, and they will analyse how these decisions impact on sustainability.

Ākonga will learn that decision-making is necessitated by scarcity and that decisions are informed by a variety of cultural perspectives and lenses. Learning and assessment will examine Māori, Pacific, and different approaches to commerce, and business models from whānau and organisation contexts.



Pathway

Assessment Information

The Year 11 Commerce course offers Level 1 credits towards NCEA. These will be two internally assessed achievement standards and two external Achievement Standards. They will be graded ‘Achieved’, ‘Achieved with Merit’, ‘Achieved with Excellence’ or ‘Not Achieved’. Not all students will do all credits – the teacher, in conjunction with the student, will direct which credits each student will take. The course for each student will allow the student to amass between 15 – 20 Commerce credits towards NCEA.