Builds on: Advanced Electronic Evidence (Part 2): IoT, Anti-Forensics, Ethics and Reporting
Validation, Error and Quality in Forensic Work
Readiness training. LEA.Training does not grant any official certificate, licence or authority.
"The tool found it" is not an answer. A court may ask: how do you know the tool was right? Who checked the work? What could have gone wrong? This unit gives the vocabulary for those questions and for honest answers to them.
Focus: test the tool, know the kinds of error, get the work checked, and keep bias out. This unit is general knowledge. It is not legal advice, and it does not prepare a laboratory for accreditation.
Learning objectives
- Explain what validation is, and what a tool test can and cannot show.
- Tell systematic errors from random errors, and name three kinds of tool error.
- Describe checking by a second examiner, and peer review.
- Say what laboratory accreditation shows, and what it does not.
- Spot the common routes by which bias enters an examination.
This lesson opens when you enrol
A$— · price for the Australia edition is not set yet
Already bought it? Sign in to open it in your classroom.
Video coming soon. The lesson text covers everything you need.
Learning Check
A short, untimed check for this lesson. It is not graded and does not count toward the final assessment. The check runs on the server: questions are sent one attempt at a time and answers are never sent to your browser before you submit.
An offline PDF of this lesson will be available here for enrolled learners.