Rasch KIDMAP - A History

"KIDMAP" was coined by Professor Benjamin D. Wright at the University of Chicago in 1978 to describe a clever way of displaying the details of a student's educational performances by indicating the items on which a student succeeded and failed in two dimensions. One dimension locates each item answered by difficulty. The other dimension stratifies the items by student success or failure. On the complete "map" a student's overall performance level, strengths and weaknesses are all clearly presented. (See KIDMAPs in RMT 4:1 p. 97, RMT 8:1 p. 345).

The KIDMAP idea is explained and illustrated in the International Encyclopedia of Education (1985, Pergamon Press, London) by Dr. John Martois under the entry "Kid-map" (p. 2810-12, with example).

The first large-scale implementation of KIDMAP took place in Los Angeles Independent County School District in the early 1980s. Hundreds of thousands of KIDMAP reports were distributed to parents.

In Australia, Geoff Masters explained the concept of a KIDMAP in an address to the Western Australian Institute for Educational Research in February 1982. In the mid-1980's, John Evans and Geoff Masters began producing KIDMAPs for schools in Victoria. One of these KIDMAPS was reproduced in Studies in Educational Evaluation (1986, 12:3, p. 264).

These KIDMAPS caught the attention of the New South Wales authorities who decided to make KIDMAPs one of the reports generated for students in the NSW Basic Skills Testing Program. Between 1989 and 1993, under the direction of Jan Lokan, the Australian Council for Educational Research distributed more than a million student KIDMAPs (known to Australian teachers as "Individual Student Reports") as part of that program.

Recently, the Educational Testing Centre at the University of New South Wales (Dr. James Tognolini, Director) has begun implementing KIDMAP as a method of reporting individuals' performances in its Mathematics Competitions. A recent newsletter of the ETC explains and provides an example of a KIDMAP.


Rasch KIDMAP - a history. Masters GN. … Rasch Measurement Transactions, 1994, 8:2 p.366



Rasch-Related Resources: Rasch Measurement YouTube Channel
Rasch Measurement Transactions & Rasch Measurement research papers - free An Introduction to the Rasch Model with Examples in R (eRm, etc.), Debelak, Strobl, Zeigenfuse Rasch Measurement Theory Analysis in R, Wind, Hua Applying the Rasch Model in Social Sciences Using R, Lamprianou El modelo métrico de Rasch: Fundamentación, implementación e interpretación de la medida en ciencias sociales (Spanish Edition), Manuel González-Montesinos M.
Rasch Models: Foundations, Recent Developments, and Applications, Fischer & Molenaar Probabilistic Models for Some Intelligence and Attainment Tests, Georg Rasch Rasch Models for Measurement, David Andrich Constructing Measures, Mark Wilson Best Test Design - free, Wright & Stone
Rating Scale Analysis - free, Wright & Masters
Virtual Standard Setting: Setting Cut Scores, Charalambos Kollias Diseño de Mejores Pruebas - free, Spanish Best Test Design A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory, Andrich, Marais Rasch Models in Health, Christensen, Kreiner, Mesba Multivariate and Mixture Distribution Rasch Models, von Davier, Carstensen
Rasch Books and Publications: Winsteps and Facets
Applying the Rasch Model (Winsteps, Facets) 4th Ed., Bond, Yan, Heene Advances in Rasch Analyses in the Human Sciences (Winsteps, Facets) 1st Ed., Boone, Staver Advances in Applications of Rasch Measurement in Science Education, X. Liu & W. J. Boone Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences (Winsteps) Boone, Staver, Yale Appliquer le modèle de Rasch: Défis et pistes de solution (Winsteps) E. Dionne, S. Béland
Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (Facets), Thomas Eckes Rasch Models for Solving Measurement Problems (Facets), George Engelhard, Jr. & Jue Wang Statistical Analyses for Language Testers (Facets), Rita Green Invariant Measurement with Raters and Rating Scales: Rasch Models for Rater-Mediated Assessments (Facets), George Engelhard, Jr. & Stefanie Wind Aplicação do Modelo de Rasch (Português), de Bond, Trevor G., Fox, Christine M
Exploring Rating Scale Functioning for Survey Research (R, Facets), Stefanie Wind Rasch Measurement: Applications, Khine Winsteps Tutorials - free
Facets Tutorials - free
Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (Facets) - free, J.M. Linacre Fairness, Justice and Language Assessment (Winsteps, Facets), McNamara, Knoch, Fan

To be emailed about new material on www.rasch.org
please enter your email address here:

I want to Subscribe: & click below
I want to Unsubscribe: & click below

Please set your SPAM filter to accept emails from Rasch.org

www.rasch.org welcomes your comments:

Your email address (if you want us to reply):

 

ForumRasch Measurement Forum to discuss any Rasch-related topic

Go to Top of Page
Go to index of all Rasch Measurement Transactions
AERA members: Join the Rasch Measurement SIG and receive the printed version of RMT
Some back issues of RMT are available as bound volumes
Subscribe to Journal of Applied Measurement

Go to Institute for Objective Measurement Home Page. The Rasch Measurement SIG (AERA) thanks the Institute for Objective Measurement for inviting the publication of Rasch Measurement Transactions on the Institute's website, www.rasch.org.

Coming Rasch-related Events
Oct. 4 - Nov. 8, 2024, Fri.-Fri. On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Core Topics (E. Smith, Winsteps), www.statistics.com
Jan. 17 - Feb. 21, 2025, Fri.-Fri. On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Core Topics (E. Smith, Winsteps), www.statistics.com
May 16 - June 20, 2025, Fri.-Fri. On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Core Topics (E. Smith, Winsteps), www.statistics.com
June 20 - July 18, 2025, Fri.-Fri. On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Further Topics (E. Smith, Facets), www.statistics.com
Oct. 3 - Nov. 7, 2025, Fri.-Fri. On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Core Topics (E. Smith, Winsteps), www.statistics.com

 

The URL of this page is www.rasch.org/rmt/rmt82k.htm

Website: www.rasch.org/rmt/contents.htm