Data analysis, reliability, modelling, and how theories are confirmed, revised or abandoned.
These are the statements the Investigating Science syllabus makes about Evidence, Models and Theory. 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.
What a model represents and omits, and how a theory is revised when evidence conflicts with it.
Evaluating claim, evidence and reasoning separately, including in your own work.
Reading trends, units, scales and uncertainty, and spotting the axis that flatters a result.
Spread, outliers and what a difference between two means can and cannot establish.
Physical, mathematical and conceptual models, and the specific prediction each cannot make.
The relationships between the three terms, which are commonly and consequentially confused.
What peer review does and does not guarantee, and why retraction happens.
How a new instrument changes what can be observed, and what could not have been discovered before it.
HSC Investigating Science - Examination Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Evidence, Models and Theory 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.
Evidence, Models and Theory is module 2 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.