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Data analysis: Human wellbeing - BELOW

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Geography

Year 10

Below satisfactory

Data analysis: Human wellbeing

Summary of task

Students were required to use and respond to a range of presented data sources to form conclusions about human wellbeing in African countries. The task was completed in test conditions as a summative assessment at the end of a two-week inquiry unit. It involved a series of structured questions, and in their responses students were required to identify and explain data trends, draw inferences from data, and make predictions and proposals in relation to human wellbeing in Africa and the Millennium Development Goals.

Students were provided with several resources to which they had to respond. These included maps and a range of graphs comparing measures of human wellbeing across a number of countries.

Achievement standard

By the end of Year 10, students explain how interactions between geographical processes at different scales change the characteristics of places. Students identify, analyse and explain significant interconnections between people, places and environments and explain changes that result from these interconnections and their consequences. They predict changes in the characteristics of places and environments over time, across space and at different scales and explain the predicted consequences of change. They evaluate alternative views on a geographical challenge and alternative strategies to address this challenge using environmental, economic, political and social criteria and draw a reasoned conclusion.

Students use initial research to develop and modify geographically significant questions to frame an inquiry. They critically evaluate a range of primary and secondary sources to select and collect relevant, reliable and unbiased geographical information and data. Students record and represent multi-variable data in the most appropriate digital and non-digital forms, including a range of graphs and maps that use suitable scales and comply with cartographic conventions. They use a range of methods and digital technologies to interpret and analyse maps, data and other information to make generalisations and inferences, propose explanations for significant patterns, trends, relationships and anomalies across time and space and at different scales, and predict outcomes. They analyse and synthesise data and other information to draw reasoned conclusions, taking into account alternative perspectives. Students present findings, arguments and explanations using relevant geographical terminology and graphic representations and digital technologies in a range of selected and appropriate communication forms. They evaluate their findings and propose action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic, political and social considerations. They explain the predicted outcomes and consequences of their proposal.

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Identifies a general trend in the data
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Presents reasons for the general trend in the data

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Lists some of the effects of urbanisation on wellbeing
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Lists a range of possible environmental, economic, political and social impacts of urbanisation
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Presents simple conclusions regarding the wellbeing of people in rural areas