Reporting, representing data honestly, and evaluating claims made by others.
These are the statements the Investigating Science syllabus makes about Communication and Evaluation. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Writing a report with method, results and discussion in the form a reader expects.
Choosing a graph, axis and scale that do not overstate the result.
Stating only what the data support, and naming what further work would settle.
Assessing provenance, method and interest in a report written by someone else.
Explaining uncertainty without either overstating or obscuring a finding.
The features that distinguish a scientific claim from one that only borrows its vocabulary.
Why replication matters, and the practices that make a result reproducible.
HSC Investigating Science - Examination Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Communication and Evaluation are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Investigating Science uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Communication and Evaluation is module 3 of 4 in Investigating Science. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Investigating Science dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.