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ED5191:04

Rasch Measurement for the Social Sciences

External

HECS Band 1

Semester 2.

Available to Masters students enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, Education and Social Sciences

Staff:

Assoc. Professor T Bond.

Rasch measurement provides for the construction and monitoring of data collection, analysis and interpretation for key educational, developmental and psychological variables. Topics include Rasch's simple logistic model and its developments as the Partial Credit Model, the Rating Scale Model and the Many-facets Rasch model. Data analysis and interpretation will focus on the theory/practice nexus.

Learning Objectives:

use Rasch measurement techniques to monitor data performance;

perform Rasch analysis techniques using a personal computer;

interpret Rasch analysis output;

critically assess the measurement characteristics of data collection devices;

solve basic measurement problems relevant to the social sciences;

understand the role of fundamental measurement in the social sciences.

Assessment by on-line activities (40%); major data analysis project (60%).