Transcript Development of the Controlled Assessment task for 2015

Development of the Controlled
Assessment task for 2015
By: Helen Robertson
FSC London
22 October 2013
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The Task
What’s different?
Making sense of the task statement
The enquiry process
Possible fieldwork techniques (primary &
secondary data)
• Potential investigations...
Task Information
• Investigate the factors that help to create a
sustainable residential community
• 4.3 How might sustainable residential
communities be planned?
What’s different?
• Sustainable Communities study focuses on
sustainability aspects relating to equality,
water, transport, energy, waste and materials
• Many field techniques are similar to Quality of
Life studies, BUT a proposed study that just
focuses on Quality of Life would not be
accepted by WJEC.
Setting up the Task
What are the
factors?
Investigate the factors that help to create a
sustainable residential
community
A model or theory
for sustainable
Which community or
communities?
The enquiry process
• Involve the candidates in the enquiry process.
– What are they aiming to achieve? – involve
candidates in posing enquiry questions
– What is the wider geographical concept / theory
that is being tested?
– How might candidates take some ownership for
selecting or collecting data? How will they
demonstrate independence?
Sustainable Communities
• April 2003
• Sir John Egan
• review to consider the skills
needed to help deliver the
vision and aims of the
Sustainable Communities Plan.
• The findings of his review and
seeks to:
– clarify what the term
'sustainable community' means
– identify who is responsible for
leading the delivery of
sustainable communities
– recognise the skills necessary
to achieve sustainable
communities.
Sustainable Communities
• Some areas have their
own Sustainable
Community strategy
• http://www.hillingdon.g
ov.uk/index.jsp?articlei
d=14694
Other locations:
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Thames Gateway
Barking Riverside
Greenwich Peninsula
East Village
Photos / Sketches / Maps
• Specific features
• Summary image
– Social
– Economic
– Environment
Quality Surveys
• Can you be
quantitative? –
smart phones?
Surveys – bi-polar scores
Egan Wheel Categories
Well run
Well connected
A radar graph showing perceptions of the sustainability of
Very Good
Cymmer xxxxx
Very Poor
Sustainability Index
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Well run
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Well connected
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Active, inclusive and safe
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Well
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26.5
Fair for everyone
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Thriving
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Well designed and built
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Active, inclusive and safe
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Well served
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Environmentally sensitive
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Thriving
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http://www.geography.org.uk/resources.asp?categoryID=14
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Environmentally
sensitive 25.3
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23.5
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Housing density & off street
parking
Street Tranquillity and Greenery
Traffic flows & Speed
Crime Surveys
Secondary data can come from www.Police.uk
Questionnaires
INSERT examples of worksheets, workable ideas,
local examples here. Notes to guide you are in
the slide notes section.
Who knows an area best? Obviously it is the people who live, work and
spend their lives there. Stakeholders
How to do a Placecheck (explained in one page)
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Choose an area to Placecheck.
Spend an hour or so on a walkabout.
Ask: What do we like about this place? What do we dislike about it? What do we
need to work on?
Think about why the place is as it is. Discuss how to make your ideas happen,
and who needs to be involved.
Make a note of what you have decided.
Follow up with action:
http://www.placecheck.info/
http://www.wordle.net/
Crime Likelihood assessment
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/
Service mapping
Services Summary
Building / Community design
• Evidence of building
design and sustainable
futures
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materials used
water use
power supplies
EPC Certificates,
Solar Panels,
Wind Turbines,
Double Glazing, etc
Building Characteristics
Primary Fieldwork – Index of
Building Sustainability
Primary Fieldwork - perception
Transport Index
Transport Index
• walkit.com/
• www.tfl.gov.uk
Questions?
• Contact:
– Helen Robertson
– FSC London
– [email protected]
– www.field-studies-council.org/london