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<metadesc>NYS Standard HS-PS4-2: Evaluate questions about the advantages of using a digital transmission and storage of information.</metadesc>
 

Revision as of 13:01, 13 October 2026

Evaluate questions about the advantages of using a digital transmission and storage of information.

Clarification statement: Examples of advantages could include that digital information is stable because it can be stored reliably in computer memory, transferred easily, and copied and shared rapidly. Disadvantages could include issues of easy deletion, security, and theft.

Regents Exam Questions

Released New York State Regents exam questions that assess HS-PS4-2 are listed here by exam and question cluster. Each link opens the question with its answer key.

Exam Cluster Question
June 2026 Physics Regents Voice Recognition Software Question 41
Voice Recognition Software Question 42
Voice Recognition Software Question 45

Performance Level Descriptions

Every Regents exam question on HS-PS4-2 is written to match one of the performance level descriptions (PLDs) below.

Level 1: Identify given transmission data or storage data as being either analog or digital.
Level 2: List the advantages or disadvantages of using a digital transmission and/or storage of information.
Level 3: Evaluate a question about an advantage and/or disadvantage of using a digital transmission and/or storage of information.
Level 4: Evaluate questions about the advantages of using a digital transmission and storage of information.
Level 5: Evaluate questions about the advantages and disadvantages of using a digital transmission and storage of information using multiple sources of scientific and technical information.

Vocabulary

Terms from the Physics Glossary that come from this standard or from the released exam questions that assess it.

From this standard
  • advantages
  • analog
  • argument
  • computer memory
  • deletion
  • digital
  • digital information
  • digital transmission
  • digitized
  • disadvantages
  • pixel
  • security
  • stability
  • storage of information
  • system
  • technical information
  • theft
  • wave
  • wave pulse
From released exam questions

Resources

Examples and discussion of resources for the learning, teaching, and assessment of HS-PS4-2.

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NGSS Dimensions

Performance expectation HS-PS4-2 was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:

Science and Engineering Practices
  • Asking Questions and Defining Problems
    • Evaluate questions that challenge the premise(s) of an argument, the interpretation of a data set, or the suitability of a design.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
  • PS4.A: Wave Properties
    • Information can be digitized (e.g., a picture stored as the values of an array of pixels); in this form, it can be stored reliably in computer memory and sent over long distances as a series of wave pulses.
Crosscutting Concepts
  • Stability and Change
    • Systems can be designed for greater or lesser stability.
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