Rasch Links

Seminal Papers On-line

• Physicist Norman Campbell's Theory of Fundamental Measurement as described for psychologists by Thomas Reese (1943)
• Sample-free Test Calibration and Person Measurement. Ben Wright. 1967.
  This presentation at the 1967 Educational Testing Service Invitational Conference launched Rasch Measurement in the USA.
• The Structure and Stability of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM)TM. Linacre, Heinemann, Wright, Granger, Hamilton, 1994.
• A History of Social Science Measurement. Ben Wright. 1997
  This paper addresses the main threads in the conceptualization of measurement (as opposed to mere numeration) in the Social Sciences, and relates them to the Rasch model.

Other Publications

• Rasch Measurement Transactions
• MESA Research Memoranda
• Journal of Applied Measurement

Web-sites

• Institute for Objective Measurement (www.rasch.org)
  The major web-site for Rasch measurement, organisations and practitioners.
• The Rasch listserv
• The Rasch Measurement Practitioners' online directory