Processing Scientific Data - AAQ Pearson Medical Science

Complete “Ready to go” lesson with no adapting necessary!
New for AAQ Pearson Medical Science BTEC from Sept 2025 Specification
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This lesson covers:
• Definitions and differences between quantitative and qualitative evidence
• Student task identifying evidence types from mixed scenarios
• Full teaching content on mean, median, mode with worked examples
• Student task calculating averages and evaluating which average best represents medical datasets
• Teaching content on percentage change with medical examples to further illustrate how starting values can affect percentage value
• Student task calculating percentage change and evaluating treatment success using percentage change
• Full explanation of uncertainty
• Student tasks to build understanding of uncertainty
• Teaching content on standard deviation illustrated with examples to explain how different examples can have the same mean but different standard vairation and so differences in their reliability
• Student task comparing technicians’ results and evaluating reliability
• Introduction to statistical significance using means, SD and uncertainty
• Application task evaluating whether a new treatment (AirFlow‑X) using real data
•Plenary matching the type of data processing to it’s description

NO PRINTING REQUIREMENTS
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This lesson follows my usual style and contains:
• Recall starter to build retention of previously learned content
• Clear levelled learning objectives and outcomes
• Clear and modern layout utilising GIFs and YouTube
• Variety of tasks and plenaries with self‑assessment to track progress
• ANSWERS INCLUDED!

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