Fieldwork Investigations

You will complete three fieldwork investigations - two in your AS course and one in A2. Any geographical fieldwork will need to follow these five main stages (Planning, Data Collection, Data Refinement, Analysis, Conclusions and Evaluation). These stages and their order are the same for any fieldwork you might do. There will be differences in how these stages are undertaken depending on the type of project you have chosen.

Clicking on each of the stages will reveal the generic (common to all) tasks you need to do to complete a successful fieldwork investigation.

Planning	Data Collection	Data Refinement and Display	Statistics and Analysis	Conclusions and Evaluation
Literature Review	Sampling Strategy	Tables	Central Tendency	Conclusions
Hypothesis and Aims	Recording Sheet	Graphs	Spearman's Rank	Accuracy and Reliability
Risk Assessment	Methods	Maps	Mann-Whitney U-Test	Strengths
Equipment	Equipment	Images	Chi-Squared Test	Weaknesses
Pilot Study	Base Maps		Nearest Neighbour Anaysis	Improvements and Extensions