Assessment Type 2: Fieldwork Report (30%)

Students produce one individual fieldwork report. Each student is responsible for independently planning, organising, and carrying out fieldwork and completing a report.

The fieldwork should focus on a local topic or an issue of personal interest.

Students obtain, analyse, and evaluate primary data as the basis of their report, which may be supported by information from secondary sources. The main emphasis is on the quality of fieldwork and the effective integration of field data.

Students should use a wide range of data-collection techniques, and develop their skills of inquiry and analysis.

The individual fieldwork report should include:

• a hypothesis or inquiry question appropriate for fieldwork
• a description of the geographical context, using maps and spatial technologies
• a description of data-collection and fieldwork techniques used
• the integration of data collected in the field, using visual representations such as tabulating, graphing, constructing diagrams, annotating sketches and photographs, and mapping
• analysis and interpretation of fieldwork data
• reference to geographical concepts, patterns, and processes relevant to the fieldwork
• findings, recommendations, conclusions, or proposed future actions, supported by data and visual representations
• acknowledgment of sources.

The fieldwork report may be in multimodal, written, and/or oral form. A written report should be a maximum of 2000 words; an oral report should be a maximum of 12 minutes; a report in multimodal form should be of equivalent length.

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning in relation to the following assessment design criteria:

• analysis and evaluation
• application.