IB skill practice

Evaluate fieldwork reliability, validity, and ethics

Geography HL practice with original source-first resources, spatial reasoning, map/data/fieldwork/GIS interpretation, process explanation, scale control, and exam-style evaluation.

Skill practice 6 marks Difficulty 3

Evaluate fieldwork reliability, validity, and ethics: Queenstown tourism lakefront

Geography HL source-first practice. A fieldwork grid for Queenstown tourism lakefront is being used for a fieldwork reliability, validity, ethics, and method limits task. A student is planning fieldwork around visitor flow, shoreline pressure, and service demand. What should the next decision do so the investigation uses primary data, sampling, reliability, validity, and ethics instead of a vague topic? Select the spatial focus, source evidence, process link, and scale judgement. Then answer in your own words: what should the student write next to strengthen this Geography HL response for the exact source? AI will analyse your map/source interpretation, data use, spatial reasoning, fieldwork or process judgement, scale, and expression.

Worked practice: build the response

Work through the geographic analysis: spatial focus, source evidence, process link, then a scale-aware judgement.