Geography Fieldwork

Accurate

How close a measurement is to the true value

Reliable

Results will be similar when repeating the same thing

Precise

Related to the smallest scale of division on the equipment used.

Representative

Your sample should be typical of the whole population/area

Valid

Your method is measuring the right thing and relvant to study

Positives of our rivers work

When mearsuring the velocity, then we dropped the cork 50cm upstream before the start of the tape measurer

Negatives of our rivers work

Not the most accurate, when measuring we had the tape measurer cut off

Positives of our rural work

scale of 0-5 in our EQA to increase accuracy, less vague measure

Negatives of our rural work

Not a massive location to find people for surveys

Quantitative - what did we do? rivers and rural

River

Measured the width, depth, velocity of the river Tillingbourne

Rural

Searched for people to do surveys to see how well they thought Brokeham was.