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Dr. John Michael Linacre

is Research Director of Winsteps.com and formerly Director of the MESA Psychometric Laboratory at the University of Chicago. Dr. Linacre has taught the principles and practice of Rasch measurement for over twenty years, for much of that time in close collaboration with Benjamin D. Wright, for many years the leading proponent of Rasch methodology. Author of Winsteps and Facets software packages for Rasch analysis and author of Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (MESA Press, 1994). He has been Editor of Rasch Measurement Transactions since 1989. His research interests include the measurement of health outcomes and authentic educational testing. In over 25 years of developing Rasch software, Dr. Linacre has probably analyzed more Rasch-related datasets, and a greater variety, than any other analyst.

Education:

MA Mathematics and Oriental Studies, Cambridge University

MA Educational Measurement, University of Chicago

PhD. Educational Measurement, University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise:

Rasch Measurement

Publications:

Editor of Rasch Measurement Transactions since 1989

Author of Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (MESA Press, 1994)

Almost 200 Journal articles and Conference papers

Awards:

Samuel J. Messick Memorial Lecturer for Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) 2011

Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago: For constructive and original research, 1991

Websites links:

www.winsteps.com

www.rasch.org

Courses:
Practical Rasch Measurement - Core Topics
Practical Rasch Measurement - Further Topics

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