// Rasch analysis - events and publications
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document.write('<tr><th align=center colspan=2>Coming Rasch-related Events</th></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>May 2008 - Dec. 2009</td><td>3-day Rasch courses (A. Tennant, RUMM), Leeds, UK, <a target="new13" href="http://home.btconnect.com/Psylab_at_Leeds/Courses.htm">home.btconnect.com/Psylab_at_Leeds/</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>May 15-18, 2008, Thur.-Sun.</td><td> 2008 Asian Chinese Quality of Life Conference (T. Bond), China <a target="new" href="http://www.hksoqol.org/conf2008/">www.hksoqol.org/conf2008</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>May 16-17, 2008, Fri.-Sat.</td><td>Rasch Measurement and Winsteps, Malaysia <a target="new" href="http://www.iium.edu.my/asasi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=1">http://www.iium.edu.my/asasi/</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>June 16-19, 2008, Mon.-Thur.</td><td> MetaMetrics 2008 Lexile National Conference &amp; Quantile Symposium, San Antonio TX <a target="new" href="http://www.lexile.com/">www.lexile.com</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>July 4 - Aug. 1, 2008, Fri.-Fri.</td><td>Practical Rasch Measurement online course (M. Linacre, Winsteps), <a target="new" href="http://www.statistics.com/courses/rasch">www.statistics.com</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>July 7-18, 2008, Mon.-Fri.</td><td>IOPS Summer School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics, The Netherlands, <a target="new" href="http://www.iops.nl/summerschool/">www.iops.nl/summerschool/</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>July 7-8, 2008, Mon.-Tues.</td><td>ASEASA Rasch Workshop (B. Sheridan, RUMM), South Africa</td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>July 9-11, 2008, Wed.-Fri.</td><td>ASEASA Evaluation &amp; Assessment Conference, South Africa</td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>July 28 - Nov. 22, 2008</td><td>Introduction to Rasch Measurement and Traditional Test Theory online course (D. Andrich, RUMM2020), <a target="new" href="http://www.education.uwa.edu.au/httpwww.education.uwa.edu.aunews/on_line_course">www.education.uwa.edu.au</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>Aug 1-3, 2008, Fri.-Sun.</td><td> 2008 Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS), Japan <a target="new" href="http://www.proms-tokyo.org/">www.proms-tokyo.org</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>Aug. 11-12, 2008, Mon.-Tues.</td><td>Fundamentals of Rasch Measurement Workshop (T. Bond, Winsteps), Sydney, Australia <a target="new" href="http://www.rehab.med.usyd.edu.au/">www.rehab.med.usyd.edu.au</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>Sept. 11-13, 2008, Thurs.-Sat.</td><td> International Conference on Outcomes Measurement (ICOM) , Washington D.C. <a target="new" href="http://icom-2008.org/">icom-2008.org/</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>Sept. 17-19, 2008, Wed.-Fri.</td><td>1st International Conference on High School and College Educational Evaluation, Veracruz, Mexico <a target="new" href="http://www.ieia.com.mx/">www.ieia.mx.com</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>Nov. 10, 2008, Monday</td><td>III Workshop "Modelos de Rasch en Administraci&oacute;n de Empresas", Tenerife, Spain. <a target="new" href="http://www.iude.ull.es/">www.iude.ull.es</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>April 13-17, 2009, Mon.-Fri.</td><td>AERA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, <a target="new" href="http://www.aera.net/">www.aera.net</a></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td>August, 2010</td><td>Probabilistic models for Measurement - 50 years, Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark</td></tr>')
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document.write('<tr><td valign=center align=center bgcolor="white"><font size=+2 color="blue">FORUM</font></td><td valign=center bgcolor="white"><a target="new" href="http://www.winsteps.com/cgi-local/forum/Blah.pl">Rasch Measurement Forum</a> to discuss any Rasch-related topic</td></tr>')
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document.write('<tr><th align=center>Recommended Rasch Publications</th></tr>')
document.write('<tr><th><a target="new14" href="http://www.rasch.org/bond.htm">Applying the Rasch Model</a> 2nd. Ed., Bond &amp; Fox</td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><th><a target="new15" href="http://home.att.net/~rsmith.arm/jam-press.htm">Introduction to Rasch Measurement</a>, E. Smith &amp; R. Smith</td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><th><a target="new16" href="http://www.rasch.org/btd.htm">Best Test Design</a>, Wright &amp; Stone</td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><th><a target="new17" href="http://www.rasch.org/rsa.htm">Rating Scale Analysis</a>, Wright & Masters</td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><th><a target="new18" href="http://www.jampress.org/">Journal of Applied Measurement</a></td></tr>')
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