Welcome back!! I hope your fieldwork was successful! If you have any equipment we can sign it back in now. (All equipment must be returned by the end of next week)

A level assessment

Importance of the NEA Lessons from last year Paper 1 (Physical) /120 Paper 2 (human) /120 NEA /60 Overall mark /300 Final grade Pupil A 79 85 27 191 B Pupil B 78 43 200 A Pupil C 81 77 47 205 Pupil D 88 100 33 221 Pupil A, B and C all scored very similar in their exams – NEA made big difference to final grade Pupil D performed exceptionally in the exams but was let down by a poor NEA. Prevented them from getting A* YOU HAVE THE TIME AND ABILITY TO MAKE THIS FANTASTIC!

The stages of a geographical investigation Decide on a research question Read around to ensure there is sufficient literature to support your project Complete a proposal form, RA and ethics form Have your forms checked by supervisor Continue Make amendments and continue Complete your literature review Write your methodology and data collection sheets Collect your data Present your data and analyse it Reach conclusions Evaluate your project 5 week plan ? ? Summer Hols This is a continuous cycle of revisiting and amending previous sections Autumn term (5th lessons)

Teachers should: provide broad parameters for students’ investigation proposals (including themes from the specification, locations, availability of equipment, time constraints) explain what independence means advise on health and safety considerations, the use of equipment and potential ethical concerns discuss with students their initial exploratory planning and tentative investigation titles review each student’s independent investigation proposal. Within this review you should ensure that the proposed investigation can suitably access the specification requirements and you should give general guidance on the methodology and analytical tools that the student plans to use. advise on good practice such as referencing and using a bibliography system. The above advice does not need to be recorded or taken into account when marking the work.

Teachers must not: provide students with a choice of titles or tasks from which they then choose mark work provisionally and share that mark so that the student may then improve it give specific guidance on how to make improvements to a draft in order to meet the assessment criteria without recording it as additional assistance on the Candidate record form (CRF) and taking it into account when marking the work. Assistance that goes beyond general advice includes (but is not limited to): providing templates or model answers for specific titles or students providing specific guidance on errors and omissions which limits students’ opportunities to show initiative themselves providing primary or secondary data not collected by the student either individually or as part of a group. Any additional guidance of this nature must be recorded on the Candidate record form (CRF) and taken into account when marking the work. Annotation must be used to explain how marks were applied in the context of the additional assistance given. Failure to do so will be considered as malpractice.

Deadlines and next steps Data should have been collected – must be shown to us today. Deadlines (write these down somewhere!) Introduction and methodology (reading day work) – due 5th lessons next week. Data presentation and analysis due Friday 26th October Conclusions and evaluations due Friday 30th November Final hand in – 13th December 09:00 You must meet with your supervisor once each half term, they will check your progress and offer advice and help, but remember that we are very limited on what guidance and feedback we can give. Every 5th lesson until Christmas will be spent working on this. In lessons I will run sessions helping you with the different stages of the write-up and give you a guide next week. You will need to spend significant time outside of lessons completing this write-up Remember there is lots of guidance on the intranet including the mark scheme.

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