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Data Skills in Geography
January 2016 @RGS_IBGSchools Steve Brace Head of Education & Outdoor Learning @RGS_IBGSchools
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“Chi-square is a statistical test that is taught to geographers at school and misunderstood thereafter.” Professor Michael Crawley Three ‘guess the graphs’ coming up …
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The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
The learned and professional body for geography Schools, higher education, with the professions and public 16,000 Fellows A focus on the discipline and subject knowledge PG Fellowship ITT students FRGS/Cgeog tutors and mentors etc
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How would you rate the data skills of your ITTs
Good, okish or bad? (Over the last 5 years) getting better or worse? Sufficient to teach the new GCSE & A Levels?
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Who …. Assesses the competence and confidence of their trainees in data/quantitative skills? Provides specific coverage of this (if necessary) within the ITT programmes? Assesses whether this is covered within school placements and mentoring support?
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99.79% correlation
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$ on science, space & tech No. Suicides
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Quant Methods in Geog 2013 93% “QM are an important skill for students to learn, (only 48% enjoyed teaching them). 88% agreed putting QM into a geog content helped students understand (but only 37% agreed that QM are well integrated into the curriculum) Maths anxiety, confidence and ability were challenges (for students and teachers)
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Teacher confidence levels
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Significant changes at GCSE and A Level
Content & assessment In the classroom & the field Since 2007/08 no post 16 ‘course work’ Teacher recruitment, (very) broad trends
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Use of mathematics and statistics in geography
Cartographic skills Graphical skills Numerical skills Statistical skills
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Individual investigation
What does individual mean …?
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Only 90% correlation?
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Pool Drownings – Nuclear power
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GIS ESRI – Cambridge, UCL, IOE & Brighton and Sussex
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Additional Support Data Skills in Geography (2016-18)
Resources overviews and classroom resources Teachers & A Level students (NEA) CPD Teacher clusters and with ITT networks Inc DS, GIS and fieldwork (Esri – Cambridge, IOE, UCL & Brighton & Sussex) Contact Simon Pinfield for further details
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GCSE, AS and A Level entries fro geography
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Further information www.rgs.org Steve Brace s.brace@rgs.org
@RGS_IBGSchools
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