Starter quiz
- What is fieldwork in geography?
- Watching geography documentaries
- Studying geography in a classroom
- Collecting data outside in the environment ✓
- Reading a geography book
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- Why do geographers do fieldwork?
- To get fresh air
- To collect real-world data and understand places better ✓
- To avoid doing homework
- To find treasure
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- Which of these is a method geographers use to collect fieldwork data?
- Counting cars on a road
- Asking people questions in a survey
- Measuring the speed of a river
- All of the above ✓
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- What is the best way to record data collected in the field?
- Writing it in a fieldwork notebook ✓
- Remembering it in your head
- Throwing it away
- Telling a friend and hoping they remember
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- What is an example of a human geography fieldwork study?
- Measuring the depth of a river
- Studying how many people visit a shopping center ✓
- Observing different rock types on a cliff
- Recording the number of birds in a forest
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- What are the two main types of data collected in fieldwork?
- Digital and paper data
- Qualitative and quantitative data ✓
- Easy and hard data
- Fast and slow data
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Exit quiz
- What does ‘analysing data’ mean in fieldwork?
- Ignoring the data and making up results
- Looking for patterns and trends in the data collected ✓
- Writing down random numbers
- Throwing away any data that doesn’t fit
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- What are the phases of a geographical enquiry?
- 1⇔enquiry question
- 2⇔data collection
- 3⇔data presentation
- 4⇔data analysis
- 5⇔conclusion
- 6⇔evaluation
- Subjective data is...
- automatically invalid and should be ignored
- useful for understanding opinions (both your own and others) ✓
- not part of data collection in fieldwork
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- What should a conclusion in a fieldwork study include?
- A summary of key findings based on the data ✓
- A guess about what the data means
- A long list of everything collected
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Key learning points
- Analysis is the process which makes sense of the data that has been collected.
- Analysis can involve looking for patterns and relationships in the data.
- Conclusions aim to answer the key questions or disprove hypotheses.
- Geographers evaluate their fieldwork to learn lessons for future studies.
Common misconception
Subjective data is automatically invalid and should be ignored.
Geographers use subjective data a lot as they value people's, and their own, opinion about something.
Keywords
Analysis - Analysis is the process which makes sense of the data that was collected.
Conclusion - A conclusion summarises your main findings in an investigation.
Evaluation - An evaluation is a judgement on your fieldwork and the accuracy and reliability of your results.
Subjective data - Subjective data is data that is based on opinion rather than facts.
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