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- David Andrich
Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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- Ida Marais
Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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- Presents course material developed in two decades of online and intensive teaching
- Provides researchers with the confidence they need in order to be in control of the analysis and interpretation of data
- Provides a unified approach to instrument design, measurement theory and data analysis
- Uses Rasch measurement theory to assess the design and administration of measurement instruments
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Part of the book series:Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)
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This book applies Rasch measurement theory to the fields of education, psychology, sociology, marketing and health outcomes in order to measure various social constructs. The chief focus is on first principles of both the theory and its applications. Because software is readily available to carry out analyses of real data, numerous small examples are provided in the book. The software used in these examples, and which is helpful in working through the text, is RUMM2030 (Rasch unidimensional models for measurement).
The book’s main goals are to equip researchers with the confidence they need in order to be in control of the analysis and interpretation of data, and to make professional rather than primarily statistical decisions mechanically. Because statistical principles are necessarily involved, reviews of the requisite statistics are provided in the Appendix.
The content is based on courses that have been taught both online and in intensive form for over two decades. Although first principles are emphasised, much of the book is based on research conducted by the two authors and their colleagues.
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Front Matter
Pages i-xixGeneral Principles and the Dichotomous Rasch Model
Front Matter
Pages 1-1The Dichotomous Rasch Model—The Simplest Modern Test Theory Model
- David Andrich, Ida Marais
Pages 75-87Invariance of Comparisons—Separation of Person and Item Parameters
- David Andrich, Ida Marais
Pages 89-95Comparisons and Contrasts Between Classical and Rasch Measurement Theories
- David Andrich, Ida Marais
Pages 149-158
The Dichotomous Rasch Model: Fit of Responses to the Model
Front Matter
Pages 159-159Fit of Responses to the Model I—Item Characteristic Curve and Chi-Square Tests of Fit
- David Andrich, Ida Marais
Pages 161-171Violations of the Assumption of Independence I—Multidimensionality and Response Dependence
- David Andrich, Ida Marais
Pages 173-185Fit of Responses to the Model II—Analysis of Residuals and General Principles
- David Andrich, Ida Marais
Pages 187-197Fit of Responses to the Model III—Differential Item Functioning
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Pages 199-208
Authors and Affiliations
Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
David Andrich, Ida Marais
About the authors
Ida Marais BSc, (North-West), MSc, PhD (Auckland) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Education’s Psychometric Laboratory at The University of Western Australia. After graduating with a degree in Computer Science and Psychology, she worked as a computer analyst / programmer for a number of years before being awarded a University of Auckland doctoral scholarship and completing her MSc and PhD in Cognitive Psychology. Since then she has been a researcher and lecturer in the fields of Psychology, Health and Education in New Zealand and Australia. Her research activities focus on psychological and educational measurement, especially the measurement of change over time. Using simulation software she developed, she also studies the effects on estimates of data that violate the Rasch model.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title:A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory
Book Subtitle:Measuring in the Educational, Social and Health Sciences
Authors:David Andrich, Ida Marais
Series Title:Springer Texts in Education
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7496-8
Publisher:Springer Singapore
eBook Packages:Education,Education (R0)
Copyright Information:The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Softcover ISBN:978-981-13-7495-1Published: 24 July 2019
eBook ISBN:978-981-13-7496-8Published: 15 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2366-7672
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680
Edition Number:1
Number of Pages:XIX, 482
Number of Illustrations:73 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics:Research Methods in Education,Methodology of the Social Sciences,Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law,Assessment, Testing and Evaluation,Psychometrics,Research Skills