CHECKLIST

Make sure you have done each of the following!

• Stated the hypothesis and highlighted it!
• Said if you have proved the hypothesis or not!
• Explained (IN DETAIL) how you have proved or disproved the HYPOTHESIS!
• Explained why one area was better than the other was!
• You need to say a little bit about why you got the results that you did.
• Why was the outer area better environmentally than the inner city area?
  Why are house prices more expensive in the suburbs than in the inner city?
• Why is there more traffic and more noise in the inner city area
• Described your findings about house prices, pedestrians, traffic and noise. Said why one area had higher house prices than the other etc.
• Shown your results in graph form! Done a number of DIFFERENT TYPES OF GRAPHS!
• Referred back to the theory part of the coursework.
• Described the limitations of your coursework.
  

ANALYIS/DATA PRESENTATION - GUIDELINES

• You should state at the beginning of the analysis what the hypothesis was and whether you felt that you proved it or disproved it.
• You need to go on then and show how you reached your conclusion.
• Your conclusion should weigh up all the evidence, which has been collected to test the hypothesis.
• Use graphs & tables to give your proof.
• You can go through the six questions you were going to test and say if you proved them or not, but you must quote the evidence to show your proof. This is often shown in a graph.
• You will need graphs for each area on:
  • Total scores on the environmental index
  • Results of noise survey
  • Results of pedestrian survey
  • Results of traffic survey
  • Average house prices

ANALYSIS - DATA INTERPRETATION

• Describe and explain the results that you found.
• Explain what your graphs show.
• Compare the graphs and the results to show that there are links.
• E.g. the sample points that scored the highest on the environmental index may also be the sample points with the highest house prices or the lowest traffic count or the lowest score on the noise survey and vice versa.
• It is very important to emphasis LINKS in your results. To get a level three for analysis you must show evidence of links. This gives you a chance to do
  • Scatter graphs
  • Line of best fit
  • Spearman’s rank

THEORY

• You need to refer back to your introduction and say how the theory that you explained in the introduction fits the results that you found.
  • E.g. which model (Hoyt or burgess) does your town most resemble and why.

LIMITATIONS

Mention the limitations of your project – both the method you used and the conclusions you came to, i.e. how could you have tested the hypothesis better: -
E.g

• Gone out more often and at different times of the day to look at the areas.
• Had sophisticated equipment to test noise or pollution levels.
• Had picked more sample points and a larger area.
• Had looked at different towns to compare them with the one you studied.
• How accurate do you think your findings are?