Your ballot is enclosed with this RMT . You may enclose your SIG membership renewal with your ballot without fear of compromising its secrecy. In particular, ability and aptitude test development to assess visual arts and social competence. Over the past 20 years, I have extended this expertise into longitudinal data base analyses. Through experiences with foundations, universities, and government, I have found social research ideologically divided and uncommitted to scientific advances.
Antiquated methods are frequently unrelated to scientific logic.
Unless we incite reform, increasing fragmentation and incoherence of the social sciences will embarrass and discredit us all. If elected Rasch SIG chair, I will pursue opportunities to express the strong links between Rasch methods and scientific thinking emphasizing their necessity for social research survival. I believe by making our links with scientific tradition explicit, not only do we model effective scientific practices for our peers but provide them with a coherent social research vision. I have worked in Rasch measurement for 15 years, publishing many papers on oral examination analysis and computerized adaptive testing. This includes the design, application, teaching, and publication of better methods for measuring and verifying the quality of variables in medical education, health care, and psychology.