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AQA SPEC A

90303
UNIT 3: LOCAL FIELDWORK
INVESTIGATION
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
Submission 2017
TITLE: Topic 11: Investigate the positive and/or negative effects of tourism on a
locality.

HYPOTHESIS: Does tourism have a negative impact on the


New Forest?
LIMITED LEVEL OF CONTROL :
Centres must be able to confirm that all the work submitted
by each student is their own.
To ensure this can be done all work with the exception of
research must be completed under direct supervision (in
lesson).
Research can be completed outside the classroom, whether
this is on the internet, from the library, taking photographs,
gathering/collecting primary data.
Preparation, research, planning, processing and
presentation all fall under limited levels of control.

HIGH LEVELS OF CONTROL:


Description, interpretation, analysis, conclusions and
evaluation fall under high levels of control.
Students:
Must work independently and complete work under formal
supervision.
Must NOT communicate with each other.
May have access to their research but not to any secondary
resources or the internet.
Students can use a laptop / PC.
You can use spell check and grammar checks.
TIME LIMIT: 20 hours
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WORD LIMIT: 2000 words. Must NOT exceed 2000 words.


MARKS: Out of 60.

TASK:
The task will take up to 20 hours (with additional time to collect
fieldwork data) with a word guidance of a maximum of 2000. You
should spend:
4 hours carrying out research and preparing notes.
Up to 10 hours completing the next stages (Limited level of
control)
1. Introduction, theory and location evidence.
2. Methodology description and justification of the data
collection techniques used.
3. Data processing collating and sorting fieldwork data.
4. Presentation completing tables, maps, graphs based
upon fieldwork results.
Word guidance for this section 800 words.

A maximum of 6 hours to write up the final three elements of


the investigation under High level of control:
5. Description, interpretation and analysis.
6. Conclusions
7. Evaluation

Word guidance for this section 1200 words.

Your work must be printed out and submitted on the


completion of each section.
Your folder is kept in school at all times.
You are not allowed to bring in additional work from home.
No use of the internet is allowed during the high level of
control.
No work is allowed to be emailed into school.
Teachers can only provide you with verbal feedback during
the low level of control.
Teachers are not allowed to mark your work prior to the
deadline and are not allowed to give you written feedback at
anytime.
High level of control is written up under exam style conditions
and can be either typed of hand written.
At the end of each coursework session you must complete
your front sheet to state how long you have spent each
session on your work. This is then authorised by your teacher.

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You must keep a record of all primary and secondary resources


you use (including websites).
You must not get rid of any draft work. It must be
retained in your folder this also helps to authenticate your
work.

LAYOUT OF COURSEWORK:

1.FRONT PAGE:
Title
Aim
Your name
Candidate number
Centre name
Ursuline High School
Centre number
14527
2.INTRODUCTION
3.METHODOLOGY
4.DATA PRESENTATION
5.DATA INTERPRETATION / DATA ANALYSIS
6.CONCLUSION
7.EVALUATION
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8.BIBLIOGRAPHY

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INTRODUCTION (12 MARKS FOR GEOGRAPHICAL
UNDERSTANDING most of which should be
shown here)
This chapter should set the scene for the whole project &
should provide the reader with the focus of the
coursework.
1. Aim: A statement that outlines the overall purpose of
the investigation.
2. The background to the study: 2 parts you will
investigate the background to the study area; you
will also outline the underlying theory, concept or
idea that formed the basis of your study.
3. Describe the characteristics of your study area:
Aspects of the local geography
Recent changes to the area if appropriate
The theory tourism and National Parks.
4. Provide sketch maps (hand drawn) to show the
location of your study area, putting it into national,
regional and local context. Annotate the range of
sketches and maps to clearly show the study area.
5. Provide annotated images of your study area.
6. State your hypotheses: giving reasons for predictions
made. You can either use statements that you will
later accept or reject; or breakdown your aim into
specific tasks to be carried out during the process
(objectives); or ask research questions that you plan
to answer subsequently.

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METHODOLOGY (12 MARKS)
In this section you should identify the question(s) that you
want to investigate and explain why you chose that
particular question or issue. You should describe the
sequence of your investigation, the methods used in
obtaining the information and explain why each method
was relevant to your particular investigation. At least
three different data collection techniques should be used.
The work should be well organised, planned and show
some initiative! Dont rely entirely on data collected
as a class!!
1. Describe how you collected your primary data:
Describe each method.
Explain your sampling technique if you used one.
2. State for each method date, time, location, weather
and sample size e.g. 50 questionnaires, 3 sites for
traffic count.
3. Explain why you chose these methodologies and how
they helped you to achieve your overall aim.
4. Link to you hypotheses.
This can be written up in paragraphs or completed as a
table
You MUST show originality. You MUST carry out
extension fieldwork.
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Compare results to a weekend.


Footpath analysis of common footpaths.
Comparing areas.
Secondary data e.g. interviews, newspapers,
leaflets, data on internet about tourist numbers to
the area etc.

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DATA PRESENTATION WORTH (12 MARKS)

You MUST include ICT to get higher then 4 marks.


Cross sections
Proportional flow line maps
Located graphs
Isoline maps
Choropleth maps
Proportional symbols located on base maps
Some statistical techniques (all working shown)
Scatter graphs
Very well annotated photographs and field sketches.
Proportional circles.
Combined graphs
Flow desire and trip line maps
Dot maps
Land use maps

See next few pages for examples of some of these


techniques.

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DATA INTERPRETATION ANALYSIS AND
CONCLUSION & QWC
Analysis:
Describe and explain what ALL of your graphs show.
Identify patterns and explain what they show.
Offer interpretation
Use data to support your findings.
Use additional calculations to analyse data (%,
fractions and ratios).
Identify and explain anomalies.
Suggest a range of reasons for your results.
Link your findings to your hypotheses.
Link data together e.g. does litter count coincide with
how many people were at each site.
Make sure you support your descriptions and
explanations with data e.g. %, ratios.
You MUST suggest a range of reasons for your data and
make sure it links to the aim and tourism.

Conclusions:
Did you prove or reject your hypotheses and aim.

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Support your answer with evidence and data. Quote


data from your results.
Finally look back at your aim and did your prove what
you set out to do. Give reasons.
Remember to always use a wide range of terminology!

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EVALUATION (12 MARKS)
Assess the strengths and weaknesses of your
methodologies. What were the problems of each
method?
Explain what impacts the limitations of the methods
have had on the results and conclusions.
Examine the extent to which the conclusions might
be unreliable. How did the limitations affect your
conclusions?
Suggest improvements to the study and further areas
of investigation if you were to undertake the study
again.
Show connections between methods, results and
conclusions.
Bibliography
Name of resource
Section used
E.g. Discover the New Pages 1-6 description of what you used.
Forest guide
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GOOD LUCK!
REMEMBER TO PLAN YOUR TIME EFFECTIVELY AND IT IS
WORTH 25% OF YOUR FINAL GRADE.

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