The Rasch SIG is thrilled to announce Dr. Trevor Bond as the winner of the Rasch SIG’s bi-annual Benjamin Drake Wright Senior Scholar Award.

Dr. Bond has had a major influence on measurement practice across international contexts through his scholarship and teaching. Dr. Bond’s work sets the standard for didactic and rigorous Rasch measurement publications. His research, teaching, and service reflect the mission of the Rasch measurement community, and we are delighted to honor him with this award.

Dr. Bond is lead author of the influential text Applying the Rasch Model: Fundamental Measurement in the Human Sciences (ARM). To collect his award, he will present an invited address at the Rasch Measurement SIG Business Meeting session at AERA in Denver, Colorado in April 2025. 

His talk, The Little Steam Engine that Could, will use that long time children’s favorite as an analogy for recounting the writing, publication and development of ARM through four editions. In the earlier classic, a long train must be pulled over a high mountain after its locomotive breaks down. Larger locomotives are asked to pull the train; they refuse, being occupied with much more important tasks. Only the little engine is willing to try and, while repeating the mantra "I think I can, I think I can", overcomes a seemingly impossible task.

Additional details about this talk are forthcoming. Please plan to join us for Dr. Bond's presentation!