ICMEE Report
November 11-13, 2001

Nov. 15, 2001: Just back from Penang, Malaysia as a paper presenter at the first International Conference on Measurement and Evaluation in Education organized by School of Educational Studies, Universitii Sains Malaysia.

Geoff Masters from ACER provided the opening plenary about setting Benchmarks and raised the role that objective measurement has in an educational evaluation system. From that moment on "Rasch" was an important byword for the whole conference. Given that Malaysia spend 23% of its GDP on education and outcome measurement systems are in the process on being implemented, the timing of this conference and the sharing of Rasch measurement ideas with the 200 participants might prove quite fortuitous.

Thanks to Wan Mohd Rani Abdullah who notified Rasch listers about this event. [To subscribe to the Rasch listserv, see www.rasch.org/rmt]

There were certainly some interesting papers presented and some important ideas canvassed. Two presentations which really caught my attention were a paper presented by Surintorn Suanthong and co-authored by Mary Lunz about "unanchoring" entitled "Factors Affecting Test Equating in Performance Examinations in Latent Trait Theory" and also a really scintillating performance by ex-MESA graduate Lee Ong Kim, from the National Institute of Education, Singapore, "Rasch one-step (concurrent) Equating for Measuring Reading Growth" - wow, what a presenter! [An example of his one-step (concurrent) work is in RMT 6:1.]

I encouraged both authors to submit to the Journal of Applied Measurement - this was real quality work.

The venue was marvelous, the setting idyllic, the food and shopping was great. Hospitality was wonderful. I felt so sorry for the hard-working organizers that a couple of key presenters didn't show - security concerns. (I felt much safer there than I do in New Orleans, Chicago or Mexico City.)

ICMEE 2003 will be in two years time - mark the date now.

You are already sorry that you didn't go this time. Trevor Bond

ICMEE Report. 2001. Bond T. … 15:3 p. 833

ICMEE Report Bond T. … Rasch Measurement Transactions, 2001, 15:3 p. 833

Rasch Books and Publications
Invariant Measurement: Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, 2nd Edn. George Engelhard, Jr. & Jue Wang	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
Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (Facets), Thomas Eckes	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	Appliquer le modèle de Rasch: Défis et pistes de solution (Winsteps) E. Dionne, S. Béland
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
Other 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

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