Section 11: Evaluation

This section is to summarise what you did in your coursework and consider what went well / what didn't go so well. Make sure you cover these key points:

1. How did you collect your data?

• Was this successful?
• Did it tell you what you needed to know?
• Was there any bias in your data collection? Maybe you collected some of it on a sunny day and some of it on a rainy day, or perhaps your sampling methods weren't very well planned (see previous post on this).
• Was any of your data unrealiable? Maybe you could only find out of date information or had to use an old map etc.

2. How would you improve your project if you did it again?

• Was there one part of your coursework that you think lets it down? (maybe the analysis, the data collection or the original hypotheses)
• What could you do to improve this?

3. What could you do to extend your study?

• Maybe you could investigate another hypothesis
• Or you could use an additional method of data collection to find out more information about one element of your work?

Read this document for some more detail.