Science Extension HSC Hub

Science extension is an exciting course which requires independent research in order to formulate and investigate a hypothesis. This course will push you to conduct investigations in a scientifically rigorous manner whilst the course content will help guide you through your experiments.

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• The science extension textbook
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Module 1: The foundation of scientific thinking

• Overview of module 1

• Influence of Philosophical Arguments on Science

• Influence of empiricism on scientific inquiry

• Inductive vs Deductive reasoning
• Ethical consideration in scientific research
• Falsifiability in scientific research

Module 2: The scientific research proposal

• Developing the question and hypothesis

• Scientific Research Proposal

• Methodology and Data Collection

• Processing Data for Analysis

Module 3: The data, evidence and decisions

• Data vs Evidence

• Qualitative Data

• Quantitative Data

• Numerical summary

• Normal Model

• Scatter Plots and correlation coefficient

• Bootstrapping and confidence intervals [Ext]

• P-Test

• Z-test

• T-test

• Paired T-test

• 2 sample T-test

• Paired T-test Bug example

• Regression Testing

• Chi squared test
• Observational studies [Ext]

Module 4: The scientific research report

• Reporting findings

Science extension exam preparation

Find your high quality (free) datasets

• AcademicTorrents (All Fields)
• AWS Open Data (All Fields)
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• European Nucleotide Archive (Biology/Genetics)
• Google Dataset Search (All Fields)
• Kaggle (Machine Learning and Data Science)