The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.
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If educators want to make valid inferences about what students know and can do, assessments like drafts, works-in-progress and repeated observations of student learning are needed.
Making rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 cheaper and more accessible can catch the infectious cases before they spread and help everyone resume normal activities safely.
We’ve learnt two cases linked to Melbourne’s COVID outbreak were in fact ‘false positives’. Here’s what that means, why it can happen, and how common it is.
An electrical engineer explains how smoke detectors work, and how to reduce the chances of a false positive.
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