The Rasch Measurement SIG offers two awards -- Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar Award and Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication Award.

The Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar Award honors an individual senior scholar whose contributions over a career have had a widespread positive impact on the field of Rasch measurement. There will be an invited presentation by the award recipient at the business meeting of Rasch Measurement SIG. This award is given biannually in even numbered years.

The Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication Award recognizes an individual junior scholar for an outstanding publication on Rasch measurement research within five years of obtaining their doctoral degree. The award is being offered as an incentive to foster ongoing excellent research in the area of Rasch measurement through the early phases of one’s career. This award is given biannually in odd numbered years.

Past Recipients

2023 Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication Award
Jue Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

2022 Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar Award
Larry Ludlow, Professor, Boston College

2021 Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication Award
Wen-Chia C. Chang, Research Fellow, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

2020 Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar Award
Carol M. Myford, Emerita Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

2018 Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar Award
George Engelhard, Professor, University of Georgia

2017 Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication Award
Adrienne Walker, Ph.D., Emory University

2015 Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication Award
Stefanie A. Wind, Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama