This mini-lesson covers AS 3 — Fieldwork Skills and Techniques: framing a geographical question or hypothesis, planning safely, choosing sampling methods, collecting primary and secondary data, presenting and analysing it with the right statistics, and drawing and evaluating conclusions.
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Good fieldwork starts by identifying a clear geographical question, issue or hypothesis arising from Units 1 or 2, then selecting appropriate sources and methods.
Risk assessment is essential: identify hazards, plan strategies to avoid accident or injury, and prepare contingencies for the field. CCEA also requires a word-processed summary statement (about 100 words: location and aims/hypotheses) and a table of primary data that statistical and graphical techniques can be applied to.
Sampling lets you study a manageable part of a population. CCEA lists:
You must be able to choose, justify and evaluate a method for a given investigation.
Tap a description, then tap the method.
Present data with appropriate techniques following geographical conventions (title, key, scale, frame, direction arrow): dot, flow-line, choropleth and isoline maps; scatter, line, bar, pie, proportional and triangular graphs, plus GIS.
Analyse with the right statistic: mean, median, mode, range, Spearman rank correlation and nearest neighbour analysis (and, at A2 only, chi-squared and location quotient).
Tap an item on the left, then its matching partner on the right.
Finally, describe, analyse, interpret your evidence, draw conclusions that answer the original question, and honestly evaluate your methods and the limitations of your data (sampling size and bias, accuracy, reliability, anomalies).
Exam tip: a good evaluation says what you would change and why - larger samples, repeat readings, better instruments - and how that would improve validity.
Enquiry: testable question/hypothesis; risk assessment; 100-word summary + primary data table
Sampling: random, systematic, stratified, pragmatic, point/line/quadrat - justify and evaluate
Presentation: dot/flow/choropleth/isoline maps; scatter/bar/pie/proportional/triangular graphs; GIS
Statistics: mean, median, mode, range, Spearman rank, nearest neighbour (A2: chi-squared, location quotient)
Conclusions: answer the question, then evaluate methods and limitations
You have covered the whole of AS 3 Fieldwork. Press Finish for your score.
You have worked through Fieldwork Skills and Techniques for CCEA A-level Geography. 🎉
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Next: test yourself in the Evaluate stage Confidence Quiz, then lock it in with Verify.