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I can give you short feedback on sections as you do them. We will also have peer feedback using the check list as a guide.
Some examples of IAs on a range of different topics from previous years..
Subject Report on the Geo IAs - Essential reading if you want a high grade.
Background reading - folder with info on corals/ tourism etc on Tioman. (use in intro and to help explain any patterns you see
Map: Remember BOLTS
Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Scale
Location of 5 sites - see presentation.
INTHINKING Guide - Go through this - it is very good and has some examples.
Task A - Finish the Introduction before you go to Tioman. ( 3 marks)
Task A - Finish the Introduction before you go to Tioman. ( 3 marks)
Map
General introduction - where it is, which country. Population.
Brief history
Recent growth as a tourist destination
Malaysian government creating a Marine park
Continual growth - different locations developed at different rates.
Links to Geographical theory - Butler
Will look at a range of resorts on west coast, assess whether tourism is having a detrimental effect -
Research Question - see presentation.
Link to syllabus areas - see presentation.
We will add further hypotheses later.
Note - 300 words and a good map. AND CITE SOURCES
Check it off on this tick list and grade yourself - is it full marks? If not why not@@!@!!!
Task 2: Write up of Methodology (3 Marks)
Task 2: Write up of Methodology (3 Marks)
You should all be writing up the method to describe and justify the methods you used, saying why they are most appropriate to help you answer the fieldwork question.
Marine Methodology
Systematic Sampling technique using transects - How and why?
Annotated diagram
Collecting individual data e.g. coral colour, fish type abundancy, urchins... whichever relates to your hypothesis.
Did you use a continuous (uninterupted) belt transect or an interrupted belt transect.
Terrestrial Methodology
What sampling was involved - why
Tourist counts
Hotel information - why this may show you success
Environmental Survey - why did you ask these questions - annotate a copy of the survey.
When/if use statistics - what used and why (v simply)
Importantly Justify all of your methodology and say how they will help you to investigate your hypothesis.
CHECK LIST FOR THIS SECTION - YES DOWNLOAD ME AND CHECK
Top Tip: Good IA's have annotate photos to help to describe and explain the patterns found withing and between sites.
Task 3: Data Presentation and Manipulation (6 marks)
Task 3: Data Presentation and Manipulation (6 marks)
Make sure that all your data has been collected.
Shared sheets document with all but Environmental Survey data
Make notes on this - your first thoughts on any patterns you can see and how you could display the data. Also what stats might you use.
All photos and videos etc are shared in this folder
Statistics - To gain higher levels, you must use Statistics at least once. You can use:
Spearmans Rank Correlation e.g. to see if there is a correlation between tourism occupancy vs litter count or touriusm count vs environmental quality total.
Mann-Whitney to compare counts at different sites and see if there are relevant differences.
Student T Test - if you know it.
Think about the ways that you can present the data in
a) local maps of each of the sites. - use proportional diagrams rather than boring graphs... or if you use bar graphs show other information together with it - see left.
b) a summary map. You are allowed to use A3 size diagrams in your Geography IA - I would recommend using this.
🦀 LOOK AT EXAMPLES 🌍
🦀 LOOK AT EXAMPLES 🌍
I cannot stress this enough.
a) Start with ones that are not linked to our IA - focus on the examiners comments for each of the criteria and actually look at the IA's
B) Now look at one of the IAs from students at CIS. Start with this one that actually have examiners comments against them.
Planning - Habitat - Stats.pdfSpearmans Rank Correlation.
If you want to see whether some of your data correlates you can use Spearmans Rank
Beware - You have to have a minimum of 10 pairs of data. This is why we collected data from 15 different hotels.
You can use it to see a correlation between:
Onshore:
Tourist success (measured by a level of occupancy) vs Environmental quality (measured by the Environmental survey)
Litter Amount vs tourist number.
Offshore
Average coral colour vs fish numbers (for example)
here is a document I created before you could use - add extra rows.
Stats Corner:
Stats Corner:
Do I have to use Statistics?
Do I have to use Statistics?
Of course - the best IA's have statistics - you have to think what type of statistics are most valid -
Useful Documents and Sites for ideas on Data Presentation:
Full page on data creation methods - Barcelona fieldwork
Spearmans Rank Correlation - Barcelona fieldwork
Mann Whitney - Barcelona fieldwork
Bi-Polar creator - Barcelona Fieldwork with some example
Mann-Whitney U- Test
This is to make sure that you are certain that differences that you have observed between sites are relevant.
Remember for both these statistical tests you must test "degrees of significance" or else all the stats you have done are wasted..
Link to Tick List - Do all these things and look at the criteria descriptions - You are all capable of getting a 7 in this IA - make sure that you do!
Look at the Stats Slide sbelow left: Slide 22 to 35 of the presentation below is most important for Geography students
Task 4: Data Analysis (8 Marks) - The most important section
Task 4: Data Analysis (8 Marks) - The most important section
Refer to data
Refer back to the initial RQ
How is this information helping you answer the RQ
How does the data link together.
If it does not or there are anomalies – why is this so? This is the MOST important bit.
Shows you are analysing – you can then bring in further secondary data that you research or qualitative observations.
Task 5: Conclusion - 2 marks
Task 5: Conclusion - 2 marks
Task 6: Evaluation - 3 marks
Task 6: Evaluation - 3 marks
Obv - answer the RQ and refer to the data and hypotheses.
Use a table to do this....
Weakness identified
How can it be improved
What effect will this improvement make.
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