Data are Fun?! for Senior Science Teachers (Cairns Edition)

Join Dr Gurion Ang and other teachers in the Cairns region for a biology-focused Professional Development (PD) day which covers best-practice in data processing, analysis and report preparation for new and returning teachers in senior sciences.

The PD includes content which covers new expectations of data analysis from the 2025 general science syllabuses.

This event is held in-person at Redlynch State College.

We'll deliver from a senior biology context but the data analysis techniques and skills we cover are useful across all senior sciences, and to some extent senior geography.

These skills are highly relevant to Internal Assessment 2: Student Experiment, but the concepts and contexts we present are relevant to Internal Assessment 1: Data Test and Internal Assessment 3: Research Investigation.

Program

Time	Description
9:30am	Arrive at Redlynch State College Lot 1, Jungara Road, Redlynch QLD 4870
10am	Part one: Syllabus orientation Research question and experimental design Data processing (means, uncertainty, standard deviation, standard error) Confidence intervals Testing for comparison (t-tests, P-values)
12:30pm	Lunch (provided)
1:20pm	Part two: Testing for correlation (Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Spearman’s rank test) Student exemplars
2:30pm	Close

Registration and cost

This professional development opportunity is free of charge.

Professional development certificates will be emailed to you after the session. We use the email information provided for the generation of PD certificates so please check carefully before submitting your registration.

What to bring

Fully charged laptop (with data set downloaded, more information in our joining instructions)
Writing materials
Your questions about anything and everything related to data analysis for IA2.

Queries

Please contact Dr Gurion Ang (gurion.ang@uq.edu.au) with any questions.