IB Geography HL Internal Assessment Example

The student formulates a clearly geographical, focused question with a defensible hypothesis, allowing the investigation to be tested rather than merely described.

The Lisbon fieldwork sites are specific and feasible for primary data collection, and the comparison across contrasting locations gives the project a strong spatial basis.

The inclusion of locator maps helps situate the investigation at both national and city scales.

The main fieldwork-location map does not fully follow cartographic conventions, so the spatial evidence is relevant but not yet presented to a high standard.

The geographic context remains somewhat general and would be stronger if it more explicitly linked transport conditions to each of the selected sites.

The theoretical framing could be more operationalized by defining exactly how accessibility and tourist density are measured.

The submission describes relevant methods, including tourist counts, questionnaires, photographs and an accessibility index, all of which are clearly connected to the research question.

The methods are applied across five sites, giving the investigation a comparative structure and making the fieldwork viable.

The use of a fixed 10-minute count and the same questionnaire across sites provides some standardisation.

The accessibility index is not defined precisely enough, making the method difficult to replicate and weakening methodological transparency.

Sampling procedures are unclear, especially how tourists were identified and how respondents were selected.

The dataset is limited by a single short count period and one-day collection, so the data quality is not strong enough for the top band.