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LC Business: Running the Business Alive Investigative Study

Run the Leaving Certificate Business Alive Investigative Study with a whole class, from the brief to the signed Form P.2.

2.5 hours
6 short lessons
Online, at your own pace
Certificate

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About this course

A two-and-a-half-hour course for Leaving Certificate Business teachers on the Business Alive Investigative Study. For this year's sixth years it is worth 200 marks, 40% of the subject, and the reports are due to their teachers by Friday 12 March 2027. It takes the NCCA guidelines' six stages one by one, from getting started on the brief to compiling the final report, and shows how to support research questions and project plans that stay each student's own, research with primary and secondary data done responsibly, and analysis you can stand over. It sets out how to authenticate the work under the SEC's Coursework Rules and Procedures, including referencing and AI use. Every template is yours to download and adapt.

What you will be able to do

By the end you will be able to plan your class's study hours back from the completion date, support each of the six stages in the ways the NCCA guidelines allow, guide each student's research question, project plan and research without doing the work for them, authenticate the work under the SEC's rules on referencing and AI, and get every report submitted as this year's brief requires.

What's in the course

6 lessons, about 25 minutes each. Take them in order, whenever suits you.

How the Business Alive Investigative Study runs this year, how to support each of its six stages and the compilation of the report with a whole class, and how to authenticate the work and take it to submission.

1 The Study as It Runs Now Free preview 25 min
2 Getting Started, the Research Question and the Investigative Folder 25 min
3 Developing a Project Plan 25 min
4 Gathering Information and Data, and Analysis and Evaluation 25 min
5 Authenticating the Work: Referencing and AI 25 min
6 Drawing Conclusions, Compiling and Submitting the Report 25 min

What you get

A certificateFor 2.5 hours of professional learning, when you finish.

Your own portfolioEverything you write in the course collects in one place to keep.

Templates to adaptEvery template in the course is yours to download and adapt.

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