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CSEC® SUBJECT SBA ADMINISTRATION DECISION
REQUIREMENT

GEOGRAPHY Field work study 1. Teachers will need to provide clear guidance and
carefully tailor the research projects to
accommodate the current COVID situation and the
students’ possible inability to travel far distances or
engage with the general public to collect data.
2. Teachers can use Virtual Field Trips (VFT) where the
technology and their skillsets allow. However,
where VFTs are used and students did not actually
go into the field, this must be stated in the
methodology.
3. Conduct field trips in very small groups. Although
small groups might require more field trips, such
arrangement would better allow for COVID safety
protocols to be observed.
4. Have the students undertake their field work within
their communities to limit the need for travelling or
working in large groups.
5. Design questionnaires using electronic survey tool,
for example, Google forms or Survey Monkey and
send out via email or social media.
6. Use telephone or online meeting platforms such as
virtual platforms such as Zoom to host interviews.
7. Consider field projects based on relevant topics from
the human and economic geography sections of the
syllabus e.g. changes in settlement patterns, urban
land uses, factors of industrial location, commercial
activities.

Evidence of students’ spatial awareness skills
should be displayed through the projects
completed. Therefore, sketch maps are still
important. While students can use Google Earth,
maps must be drawn, clearly annotated.

HUMAN AND
SOCIAL BIOLOGY NO SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT REQUIRED
FOR
THE 2021 EXAMINATIONS

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