Development of the Controlled Assessment task for 2015

By: Helen RobertsonFSC London

22 October 2013

• 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 TaskWhat are the

factors?

Investigate the factors that help to create a

sustainable residential community

Which community or communities?

A model or theory for sustainable

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.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=14694

Other locations:

• 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 Very Good Cymmer Very Poor Sustainability Index

1 2 3 4 5 6

Well run 21 11 0 0 0 0 26.5

Well connected 16 9 6 1 1 0 23

Well served 11 13 9 0 0 0 20.5

Environmentally sensitive 21 9 3 0 0 0 26.5

Fair for everyone 0 12 6 7 1 1 10.1

Thriving 18 14 0 1 0 0 25.3

Well designed and built 17 8 6 1 1 0 23.5

Active, inclusive and safe 27 5 0 0 0 0 29.5

Well run

Well connected

Well served

Environmentally sensitive

Fair for everyone

Thriving

Well designed and built

Active, inclusive and safe

0

20

40

A radar graph showing perceptions of the sustainability of xxxxx

http://www.geography.org.uk/resources.asp?categoryID=14

Housing density & off street parking

Street Tranquillity and Greenery

Traffic flows & Speed

Secondary data can come from www.Police.uk

Crime Surveys

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)

1. Choose an area to Placecheck.2. Spend an hour or so on a walkabout.3. Ask: What do we like about this place? What do we dislike about it? What do we

need to work on?4. Think about why the place is as it is. Discuss how to make your ideas happen,

and who needs to be involved.5. Make a note of what you have decided.6. 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– 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– enquiries.ldn@field-studies-council.org– www.field-studies-council.org/london