Conclusion and Evaluation

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Conclusion and Evaluation

• IB Geo IA

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Conclusion

• Common Problems from Last Years Class

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Description from Fieldwork Guide

• Students should summarize the findings of the
  fieldwork investigation. There should be a clear,
  concise statement answering the fieldwork
  question. It is acceptable for the conclusion to
  state that the findings do not match the
  students preliminary judgment or prediction.
• The suggested length of this section for work
  appropriate to criterion E is approximately 200
  words.

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Dont Judge!

• Parents should be teaching their children about
  safe sex, but they are not, so they are bad
  parents.
• This fertility rate is bad
• Mexicans arent knowledgeable about
  contraception
• People in Slag are lazy, dont exercise and only
  eat junk food.
• South Deering is least safe because of the type
  of ignorant people that live there.
• THESE ARE SWEEPING GENERALIZATIONS AND MAKES YOU
  SOUND LIKE A JERK!

This is bad parenting!!!
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Take your opinions out

• The only conclusions you can possibly make must
  be related to what the data tells you.
• You cannot possibly reach this conclusion
• This fieldwork points to a bigger problem, and
  that is that teenagers dont care about religion
  or consequences.

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Avoid Being Vague

• Take out any language such as the following
• Pretty low
• Pretty high
• Pretty good
• Pretty bad
• High education
• Good fertility rate
• Replace with something more specific!
• What are examples of better options?

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Conclusion Rubric
Marks Level Descriptor
0 The work does not reach the standard described by the descriptors below.
1 There is some attempt to draw a conclusion to the fieldwork question, which may not be completely consistent with the analysis.
2 There is a clear conclusion to the fieldwork question, consistent with the analysis.
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Evaluation

• Common Problems from Last Years Class

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Description from the Fieldwork Guide

• Students should review their investigative
  methodology, including methods of collecting
  primary information. They may wish to suggest an
  alternative hypothesis. Within this, they should
  consider any factors that may have affected the
  validity of the data, including personal bias.
  They should discuss any limitations of the
  investigation and make recommendations for
  improvements and extensions. Students should
  suggest specific and plausible ways in which the
  study might have been improved and could be
  extended in the future.
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• The suggested length of this section for work
  appropriate to criterion F is approximately 300
  words.

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Dos and Donts from IB

• Dont use this section to do the following
• apologize for poor data collection
• make excuses for bad weather
• complain about fellow students or
  questionnaire/interview participants
• make excuses for insufficient time
• Do use this section to
• focus on weaknesses in sample size, assessing the
  appropriateness of techniques/methods, and
  providing some recommendations for improvements.

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No one likes a whiner

• Under no circumstances is this a place for you to
  complain about your group, the people you
  surveyed, or about having to do this project.
• If my group met more often and showed up to
  meetings when they were supposed to, this data
  would have been better.
• If people werent so ignorant and mean, they
  would have provided me with better data on the
  questionnaire.
• If we had more time to complete this project, I
  would have done better.

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There is still time

• No one should be writing in their evaluation that
  they could have done better graphs and could have
  analyzed better.
• Make better graphs
• Analyze better
• Whats stopping you?

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Evaluation Rubric
Marks Level Descriptor
0 The work does not reach the standard described by the descriptors below.
1 There is either some attempt to evaluate methods of collecting fieldwork information or some suggestion is made for improvement or extension.
2 Methods of collecting fieldwork information have been evaluated or there are valid recommendations for improvements or extensions.
3 Methods of collecting fieldwork information have been evaluated clearly. There are valid and realistic recommendations for improvements or extensions. There may be some suggestions for modifying the fieldwork question.