Applications of science, their consequences, and the public reasoning that should accompany them.
These are the statements the Investigating Science syllabus makes about Science, Technology and Society. 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.
How a discovery becomes an application, and the benefits and harms that follow.
The science embedded in ordinary technologies, and the reasoning that improves decisions about them.
How risk is quantified and perceived, and why the two diverge.
Competing values in applied science, and how a decision can be defended rather than merely made.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems and their contributions to environmental science.
How evidence enters policy, and why a policy can diverge from the scientific consensus.
How scientific work is actually organised: funding, collaboration and the pressures on practice.
HSC Investigating Science - Examination Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Science, Technology and Society 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.
Science, Technology and Society is module 4 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.