Intensive Course in Measurement
January 12- 25, 2000
Theories and Applications in Social Measurement
This unit provides a theory of social measurement that unifies
major approaches used in education, psychology and sociology for
the construction of scales for performance assessment,
questionnaires for measuring attitude and preference and choice.
The history, philosophy and mathematics of the theory are
integrated in the process of considering the designs for data
collection, the models for analysis, and the software for
implementing the analyses. Basic principles are emphasized, and it
will be shown how the study of bias, item banking, the study of
profiles, and the like, arise from the same theory. This theory is
based on the simple logistic model of Rasch for dichotomous
responses, it is extended for ordered category responses, and
related to paired comparison response formats including those for
preference and choice data.
David Andrich, andrich@murdoch.edu.au
RUMM Workshop, Perth, Australia
January 27-29, 2000
Following the course, the Survey Research Centre in the Department of Public Health at the University of Western Australia is hosting an introductory workshop on Rasch analysis for health professionals and health service researchers. This will be conducted by Alan Tennant from the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Research Unit at the University of Leeds, UK. We will be using the latest version of RUMM which includes options for DIF analysis.
Contact Madeleine Robertson.
Intensive Course in Measurement Andrich, D.A. … Rasch Measurement Transactions, 1999, 13:3 p. 700
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