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
2022 Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar AwardLarry Ludlow, Professor, Boston College
2021 Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication AwardWen-Chia C. Chang, Research Fellow, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2020 Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar AwardCarol M. Myford, Emerita Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
2018 Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar AwardGeorge Engelhard, Professor, University of Georgia
2017 Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication AwardAdrienne Walker, Ph.D., Emory University
2015 Georg William Rasch Early Career Publication AwardStefanie A. Wind, Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama