Year 12 HSC Science Extension

Learn.

• Module 1: The foundation of scientific thinking – Overview of module 1
  • Development of modern science
    • Influence of Philosophical Arguments on Science
    • Influence of empiricism on scientific inquiry
    • Inductive vs Deductive reasoning
  • Influences on current scientific thinking
• 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 [See Data for extension for this module]
  • 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
  • F-test
  • Regression Testing
  • Chi squared test
  • Shapiro-Wilk Test, Levene’s Test, [Ext]
• Module 4: The scientific research report
  • Reporting findings

Master.

• Science Extension notes
• Sample internal exams
• Sample Trial and HSC exams