Margaret MacDougall

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What techniques are best for obtaining evidence for the improved discriminatory power of an educational assessment?

Traditionally, for an item-based educational assessment, the item discrimination index has been used to represent how well individual items discriminate between test candidates of different...

19 May 2022 8,399 4 View

Does bootstrapping help to address the problem of covariate balance at baseline?

I would be most grateful for the opportunity to discuss the utility of the bootstrap method in managing sampling error in randomized controlled trials where the treatment allocation has been...

27 January 2020 2,819 1 View

Does anyone have any images to share illustrating good practice in data visualization in the health sciences and medicine?

I am particularly interested in examples which educators could reasonably expect non-specialist learners of statistics to adapt for use in their own working lives. (Therefore, it should...

22 April 2016 3,855 3 View

Are there instruments for measuring anxiety or self-efficacy in mathematics or statistics among primary school children?

I am specifically interested in instruments (e.g. questionnaires or scales) which primary school children could reasonably be expected to use with their peers.

11 February 2016 7,186 2 View

Teaching continuity of real functions

What are the most frequent challenges which undergraduate students encounter in understanding the concept of the continuity of real functions and do educators address these challenges?

01 January 1970 2,546 14 View

Topical instances of false positives in clinical RCTs

I would be most grateful for advice on interesting clinical cases where interventions have been approved based on hypothesis test results from high-quality RCTs, but where it has subsequently been...

01 January 1970 4,458 4 View

Will prioritisation of AI and machine learning in higher education improve the competency of future health professionals in estimating clinical risk?

What are your views in response to this question in the wake of the recent explosion of interest in AI and machine learning?

01 January 1970 9,026 5 View

Publishing Journal Special Issues or Books through University of Buckingham Press

Hello Does anyone have any personal experience of publishing a journal special issue or book through University of Buckingham Press?

01 January 1970 9,618 0 View