Principles of Macroeconomics

 

Student Assignment

 

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1. Students should upload the assignments in Moodle through the link (Turnitin) provided by your course lecturer on or before the deadline.
2. Students should submit their assignments in typed format which is accepted by Hand written assignments are not be accepted.
3. If a student is found violating rules and instructions or has used tricks to reduce the plagiarism percentage, a disciplinary action will be taken by the Department Council (DC).
4. Student is responsible for the consequences of submitting a wrong file in Moodle.

 

5. Students are advised to follow Harvard referencing style. A sample of referencing is shown below:

• For Books:

Schneider, Z, Whitehead, D & Elliott, D 2007, Find them correct: The right steps for good handwriting, 3rd edn, Elsevier New Zealand, Marrickville, Auckland

• For Websites:

Health Council 2019, Causes of bad health, Health Council, viewed 2 January 2019, <https://www.health.org.om/about-health/reasons-badhealth/>.

• For Journals

Khan I, P 2004, ‘Role of infrastructure in economic development’, Standard, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 46-52.

• For Newspaper Articles

Norvic, N 2012, ‘Education in pandemic: new mode of education’, The Arabic Education, 30 March, p. 5.

 

Structured Assignment

Course Name:     Principles of Macroeconomics
Course Code:	BAEC2204	Level:		Diploma-II	Section No:	1 &2
Date & Time of Issue:	18-02-2021

 

Learning Outcomes Covered in the Assignment:
Outcome No. 2	Explain how the following key aggregate economic variables are defined and measured: the price level, national income, employment, unemployment, the labor force, the unemployment rate, the rate of inflation, the exchange rate.
Outcome No. 3	Understand how national expenditure and national product are measured and how the equilibrium level of national income is achieved.
Outcome No. 10	Define the different types of unemployment and explain how each affects government policy

 

Assignment Question(s)

(Allotted Marks:   /15)

Select any One Country of your choice and write a report on any one question.

                                                                 

1. Analyze unemployment problem of a country. Evaluate the effect of COVID-19 on employment in the country. Identify government measures to solve it. Take the relevant data for the assignment.

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2. Analyse the contribution of different sectors to GDP of a country. Evaluate the effect of COVID-19 on GDP. Identify government steps to improve GDP. Take the relevant data for the assignment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rubrics for Assignments

RUBRICS – INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
Criterion		Unsatisfactory	Satisfactory	Good	Very Good	Excellent
		55%	67%	79%	89%	100%
Discussion & Analysis	70%	None of the relevant assignment tasks were included.	Incomplete or excessive discussion of assignment tasks and no significant errors in content.	Insufficient discussion and analysis. Slight evidences of tasks required were introduced but with minor errors in content.	Sufficient details are provided to support assertions; answer focuses only on issues related to the question; factually correct, deals fully with the question.	Accurate details are provided with clear evaluation of all facts and data and exchanged ideas objectively.
Creativity	10%	Unable to understand the links between concepts in the given tasks and lack of evidences of reflective and independent thinking.	Able to understand the links between concepts and shows less evidences of reflective and independent thinking.	Understand the concepts clearly and demonstrate reflective and independent thinking moderately.	Demonstrates evidence of analytical skill and argue the concepts with reason but lacks original thinking.	Demonstrates clear analytical skill and evaluates the underlying concepts to form an independent judgement with a new perspective.
Structure / Organizing content	10%	Very weak organisation of the report and logical structuring of the report is completely missing.	Minor problems with logical organization and structuring of the  report.	The report is logically organized with heading, numbering, sections, subsections and paragraphing generally.	The report follows logical organization and accepted report layout with proper heading, numbering, sections, subsections and paragraphing in line with the requirements of the course.	The report is clearly and logically organised with  correct academic  layout with proper heading, numbering, sections, subsections and paragraphing in line with the requirements of the course.
Bibliography / References	5%	References are completely missing and excessive materials from internet sources.	Reference errors are there but evidences of own thinking are present, even though there are some uncited sentences.	References are there but there are some errors in following the specified referencing style.	All references are correctly written but not properly aligned.	All references are correctly written and no errors in the specified referencing style.
Writing Quality	5%	Major problems with Grammatical /spelling/punctuation and language mechanics, rambling sentences, repeated ideas, and the focus is substantially detracted from the given tasks.	Grammatical /spelling/punctuation errors with language mechanics, but do not interfere the readability significantly and ideas are focused on the given tasks moderately.	Minor errors of Grammatical/spelling/punctuation but do not interfere with readability and ideas are substantially focused on the given tasks.	Grammatical errors/spelling/ punctuation  errors are rare and  ideas do not detract from the] focus on the  given tasks.	The work is free of grammatical/ spelling /punctuation errors, clarity in purpose and easy readability with clear focus on given tasks.
	100%
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