About the session
Do you want to improve your skills, knowledge and confidence in data analysis and statistics?
This three hour session run by the Field Studies Council (in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society) will cover a range of descriptive and statistical techniques to improve your delivery, with practical support and ideas to use with students.
Course Outline:
- Introduction to the importance of data analysis in geography.
- Brief overview of some differential analysis techniques e.g. range, central tendencies, and dispersion.
- Purpose of statistical analysis and how to choose the correct statistical analysis for different data types.
- Worked example of one test (student’s t-test).
- Opportunity to try any of the following tests through self-led worked examples, including Mann-Whitney U test, Chi-squared test, and Spearman’s Rank correlation coefficient.
- Round up of how to include more data analysis in your curriculum.
- Promotion of Field Studies Council courses and resources.
Spaces are limited to 20 teachers. Refreshments will be provided.
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR
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