[Informatics] Seeking hypothesis definition advice

[Mark]

This is not exactly an answer, but a strategy. You might want to try
working in reverse: find some interesting data first, and form a hypothesis
around it.
Out of interest, I just did this:

1. Googled for "data victoria"
2. Found https://www.data.vic.gov.au/
3. Chose 'Education' at random
4. Selected the first link: Government schools average class size -
Secondary English classes, Feb 2001-2012
5. Grabbed the CSV data, loaded it into Excel.
6. Saw that between 2001 and 2012, average year 12 class sizes have gone
down from 21.2 to 19.0.
7. Wondered a bit about why class sizes are falling, and the possible
effects that might have.
8. Hypothesised that smaller class sizes lead to improved learning outcomes
for students.

Then I might have gone off and find relevant secondary data, and frame a
questionnaire, survey, interview to collect primary data.

That took about 5 minutes. I'm sure you can graze the online datapasture
and soon find a dataset that makes you go "Hmmmm, I wonder why..."

Other Victorian datasets are:

Vicmap Data - Land Channel Products and Services -
https://services.land.vic.gov.au/landchannel/content/productcatalogue
Reporting, planning and data - health.vic -
https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/about/reporting-planning-data
City of Melbourne - Open Data Portal - https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/

There are literally hundreds out there.

HTH
Mark



On 4 February 2016 at 09:36, Morante, Donna C <
Morante.Donna.C at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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> This may be a big ask but does anyone have any examples of hypothesis
that the students could use as a guide?  I am starting to feel lost with
this whole thing.
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> Ta
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> Donna
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> From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Jenny Bean
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 January 2016 6:38 PM
> To: 'Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List' <
informatics at edulists.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [Informatics] Seeking hypothesis definition advice
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> Hi Adem
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> Attached is what I gave my students. Hope this helps.
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> Regards
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> Jenny Bean
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> Oakleigh Grammar
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> From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Adem Sahingoz
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 January 2016 6:23 PM
> To: informatics at edulists.com.au
> Subject: [Informatics] Seeking hypothesis definition advice
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> Hi all,
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> Has anyone come up with a simple way of explaining or defining a
hypothesis and how to develop one for the SAT? I've already gone through
the advice for teachers resources section and have found some interesting
material there but would love some extra bit of advice or suggestions from
other teachers.
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> Kind Regards,
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> Adem Sahingoz
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> Minaret College
> 1 Birch Street
> Springvale
> Victoria 3171
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> Ph: 95740567
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Mark Kelly

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