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David Andrich is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Decision Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Statistics and Probability, Biomedical Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research, and Information Systems and Management.

Their scholarly work covers a diverse range of topics, notably Psychometric Methodologies and Testing, Educational Assessment and Improvement, School Choice and Performance, Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, Statistics Education and Methodologies, Statistical Methods and Applications, and studies involving Muscle activation and electromyography.

David Andrich has contributed to several academic journals, including Applied Measurement in Education, Measurement, and Disability and Rehabilitation. Their recent publications include:

  • The Trade-Off between Model Fit, Invariance, and Validity: The Case of PISA Science Assessments (2020) in Applied Measurement in Education
  • The Rasch distribution: A discrete, general form of the Gauss distribution of uncertainty in scientific measurement (2020) in Measurement
  • Re: the Upper Extremity Functional Scale for Prosthesis Users (UEFS-P): subscales for one and two-handed tasks (2024) in Disability and Rehabilitation

Their collaborative work involves coauthors such as Yasmine H. El Masri, Mike Horton, Jill Carlton, and Dragana Surla, each of whom has contributed to at least one joint publication with them.

Best Publications

  • A rating formulation for ordered response categories

    David Andrich

  • Rasch models for measurement

    David Andrich

  • Application of a psychometric rating model to ordered categories which are scored with successive integers

    David Andrich

  • Controversy and the Rasch model: a characteristic of incompatible paradigms?

    David Andrich

  • A General Form of Rasch's Extended Logistic Model for Partial Credit Scoring

    David Andrich

  • Assessment and learning: fields apart?

    Jo Anne Baird;David Andrich;Therese N. Hopfenbeck;Gordon Stobart

  • Rating scales and Rasch measurement.

    David Andrich

  • An elaboration of Guttman scaling with Rasch models for measurement.

    David Andrich

  • Formalizing dimension and response violations of local independence in the unidimensional Rasch model.

    Ida Marais;David Andrich

  • Relationships between the Thurstone and Rasch approaches to item scaling

    David Andrich

  • An Extension of the Rasch Model for Ratings Providing Both Location and Dispersion Parameters.

    David Andrich

  • Scaling Attitude Items Constructed and Scored in the Likert Tradition.

    David Andrich

  • Recent advances in analysis of differential item functioning in health research using the Rasch model.

    Curt Hagquist;David Andrich

  • A Hyperbolic Cosine Latent Trait Model For Unfolding Dichotomous Single-Stimulus Responses

    David Andrich;Guanzhong Luo

  • Is the sense of coherence-instrument applicable on adolescents? A latent trait analysis using Rasch-modelling

    Curt Hagquist;Curt Hagquist;David Andrich

  • The Application of an Unfolding Model of the PIRT Type to the Measurement of Attitude

    David Andrich

  • The General Health Questionnaire: a psychometric analysis using latent trait theory.

    David Andrich;Lesley Van Schoubroeck

  • A hyperbolic cosine latent trait model for unfolding polytomous responses: Reconciling Thurstone and Likert methodologies

    David Andrich

  • Real and Artificial Differential Item Functioning

    David Andrich;Curt Hagquist

  • An Expanded Derivation of the Threshold Structure of the Polytomous Rasch Model That Dispels Any “Threshold Disorder Controversy”

    David Andrich

  • A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory: Measuring in the Educational, Social and Health Sciences

    David Andrich;Ida Marais

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