Methodology Table There are 2 main ways you can set this out & examples are shown below. They key things to remember to include are: What you did (& if primary or secondary data collection) Your own personal method(s) Organising & sequencing the investigation – days, dates, times, sampling structure etc Why you used those methods – justification of the choices you made to help you answer the original question/hypothesis Key Terms Example 1. We carried out these data collection methods in 3 sites in Porthcawl on 2nd July between 11.00 and 2.30 pm. The 3 sites are shown on the map below. I have set the data collection methods out in chronological order. Data collection method Secondary research on Porthcawl Location How the method was carried out Why we chose this method At school before the field trip Using these websites: …. To find out if Porthcawl is a suitable location to investigate the impact of tourism. To help choose suitable sites to collect the data via photographs, maps and other information… Questionnaire At all 3 sites We devised a questionnaire containing a mixture of open and closed questions (see appendix 1), We aimed to get a sample of 50 people across the sites. We used a random/systematic/etc sampling strategy….. Environmental quality survey At all 3 sites We devised a EQS using the bipolar method (see appendix 2). We each did these ourselves, then totalled the group’s results before producing a class average… This gives us information from both locals and visitors to help us find out what the impact of tourism has been, either positive or negative or both. Open Questions allow for… Closed questions provide quantitative data for mapping, graphing etc…. The sampling strategy/size was chosen to…. The EQS allows us to … Example 2 Methodology Table Method of data collection Secondary data research on Porthcawl Questionnaire (primary data) Location How the method was carried out Why we chose this method At school before the field trip (Wednesday X & Thursday Y) At site 1, Porthcawl Promenade (see map) between 11.00 and 12.00 on 2nd July 2015 At site 2… EQS There’s a lot you could write, some of it repetitive, so think carefully about how you set this out. Bear in mind that there is a word limit of approx. 2,000 words so don’t go mad!