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...

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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?

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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...

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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?

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