L1 Paper 4 revision

5 components of a fieldwork investigation?

1. Aims, Hypothesis and Background info

2. Date methodology and risk assessment

3. Data Presentation

4. Data Interpretation

5. Conclusions and Evaluation

Primary data

examples

• Data that is personally collected by you in the field.

  e.g.: traffic counts, pedestrian counts, questionnaires, surveys

Secondary data

examples

• Any data that has been collected by someone else and published

  e.g: books, internet, academic journals, census data

adv of primary data - 3

• up to date

• only includes data relevant to your coursework

• you know the data that has been collected

• collected in the format/ way that you want.

dis of primary data - 3

• may include personal bias

• is time consuming

• expensive to travel

• some data may be unavailable or dangerous to collect.

adv of secondary data

• can study temporal changes e.g. how population has changed over a number of years.

• quicker if data is on internet

• may contain data that you can’t personally obtain.

dis of secondary data

• may be out of fate

• more info than u need

• info may include larger area than your study

• data may be in wrong format

• don’t know how the data was collected and who.

undertaking risk assessment, table in one note

Identify the risk	Likelihood of it happening (out of 5)	Severity if it happens (out of 5)	What is the risk (out of 25)	How do i reduce the likelihood of severity	What action do I take if it does happen
Rainy /  windy weather	4	1	4	Take appropriate warm and waterproof clothing	Put on spare clothes, inform a member of staff.
Drowning	1	5	5	Keeping people away from the river.	Call ambulance..
Falling into river	3	4	12
Hitting head on tree	1	3	3	Telling people to watch where there going	Ice pack
Hitting someone with a pole	3	2	6	Telling people to be careful with equipment	First aid, tell them to sit down, confiscate the equipment

Data Methodology and Collection

Write down the 4 things that any Method must include:

1. Data, time and location of data collection and group size

2. description and copy of data collection forms used e.g. questionairs or counts

3. Explanation of how the forms were used e.g. sample size, count period, count technique, etc.

4. description of equipment and its use

What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative data? Give 2 examples for each

Quantitative data - Data that has a factual information that can be measured or counted

 

Qualitative data - Data that is opinion based and cannot be counted

subjective and objective data

Subjective data - Based on opinion

Objective data - Based on fact and unbiased