AC9S9I06 Year 9 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

assess the validity and reproducibility of methods and evaluate the validity of conclusions and claims, including by identifying assumptions, conflicting evidence and areas of uncertainty

Elaborations

• 1 discussing what is meant by ‘validity’ and how the validity of information in secondary sources can be evaluated
• 2 identifying gaps or weaknesses in conclusions and relating these to the validity and reproducibility of the method
• 3 identifying assumptions in methods and determining the impact these could have on the validity of the conclusion
• 4 analysing methods and conclusions to identify facts or premises that are taken for granted to be true, and evaluating the reasonableness of those assumptions
• 5 considering if areas of uncertainty could lead to a viable alternative conclusion
• 6 considering how general practitioners manage conflicting evidence to diagnose illness

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