David Andrich
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| fields = Education, Psychometrics, Quantitative Methods
| workplaces = The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University
| alma_mater = University of Chicago
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| notable_students = Liz Constable
| known_for = Contributions to Rasch measurement theory, quantitative research methods
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| awards = Susan Colver Rosenberger prize, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia
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David Andrich is an Australian academic and assessment specialist.{{Cite web|title=Beware the tyrannies of the ANAs|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2015-04-23-beware-the-tyrannies-of-the-anas/|date=2015-04-23|website=The Mail & Guardian|language=en-ZA|access-date=2020-04-30}} He has made substantial contributions to quantitative social science including seminal work on the Polytomous Rasch model for measurement, which is used in the social sciences, in health and other areas.
Andrich is currently a Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia, where he holds the Chapple Chair in Education. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in 1990 for contributions to measurement in the social sciences.{{cite web |url=http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows/profile.php?id=16 |title=Profile of ASSA Fellow: Professor David Andrich |website=www.assa.edu.au |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424234224/http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows/profile.php?id=16 |archive-date=24 April 2011 |url-status=dead}} Andrich also worked with Georg Rasch in Denmark and Australia. He is one of the most prominent advocates of Rasch's probabilistic measurement models.
Biography
=Education=
David Andrich completed his BSc in mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Western Australia.{{Cite web|title=David Andrich|url=https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/david-andrich|website=the UWA Profiles and Research Repository|language=en|access-date=2020-04-30}} He briefly taught high school mathematics and worked in the curriculum branch of the Education Department of Western Australia, before being appointed to the Department of Education at The University of Western Australia.
Andrich completed his PhD at the University of Chicago's MESA program in the School of Education in 1973. His PhD Committee consisted of Benjamin D Wright, R Darrell Bock, and Shelby J. Haberman. In 1977, he spent six months as a fellow of the Danish Institute for Educational Research working with the late Danish mathematician Georg Rasch, and he spent another six months as a research fellow at the University of Chicago working with Benjamin D Wright|. In 1986, he spent a further six months at the University of Chicago.{{Cite periodical |last=Webster, Ph.D. |first=Linda |date=Spring 1998 |title=David Andrich: A Genius From Down Under |url=https://www.rasch.org/pm/pm1-26.pdf |magazine=Popular Measurement |publisher=Institute for Objective Measurement |page=26 |volume=1 |issue=1}}
=Career=
In 1990 and in 1993 and 1996, Andrich was appointed a visiting professor at the University of Trento in Italy for periods of two months. In 1986, he took up the position of Professor of Education at Murdoch University, where he worked until 2007. During that time, he was the Dean of Education at Murdoch University from 1988-1990 inclusive, and from June 2003 until end May 2005. In 2007, he returned to The University of Western Australia as Chapple Professor of Education.
Andrich has been a member of editorial boards for a number of journals including Psychometrika (1995–2003), Applied Psychological Measurement (1986-), the Journal of Educational Measurement (1984–1989) and Australian Journal of Education (1990–1993). He has written a number of reports for both the state and federal governments, and in 1990 he was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia for his contributions to measurement in the social sciences. He continues to teach educational measurement.
He is especially known for his work in item response theory, with a particular focus on Rasch models for measurement. His research and work ranges from the philosophy of measurement, through model developments, exposition and interpretation, to software development. He has published in Educational, Psychological, Sociological and Statistical journals. He is the author of Rasch Models for Measurement (Sage) and coauthor of the software package Rasch Unidimensional Measurement Models (RUMMLab). He has published extensively in areas ranging from Rasch models to philosophy of science. Some of these publications are listed in articles on the Rasch model and polytomous Rasch model.
Andrich has organized a series of conferences on Rasch measurement models hosted in Perth, Western Australia, which have attracted researchers from a wide array of countries.{{Cite web |title=SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEASUREMENT In Health, Education, Psychology and Marketing: Developments with Rasch and Unfolding Models |url=https://www.rasch.org/rmt/rmt173b.htm |website=Institute for Objective Measurement}} He has held major grants with the Australian Research Council continuously since 1985.{{Cite web|url=http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/directory/professor-david-andrich/|title = Meet Our People —}} As recognition for his works, he was awarded the Susan Colver Rosenberger prize for his research while completing his PhD at the University of Chicago.{{Cite web|title=David Andrich —|url=http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/people/david-andrich/|website=www.education.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2020-04-30|archive-date=21 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421223308/http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/people/david-andrich/|url-status=dead}}
Major publications
- Andrich, D. (1988) Rasch Models for Measurement. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
References
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External links
- [http://www.rasch.org/pm/pm1-26.pdf Popular Measurement article on David Andrich]
- [http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/david.andrich The University of Western Australia Profile]
- [http://www.rasch.org/rmt/rmt111d.htm Georg Rasch in his own words: transcript of interview by David Andrich]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110424234224/http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows/profile.php?id=16 Profile: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia]
- [http://www.education.uwa.edu.au/ppl Pearson Psychometrics Laboratory at UWA]
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Category:Australian social scientists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Western Australia
Category:University of Western Australia alumni
Category:University of Chicago alumni
Category:Academic staff of Murdoch University
Category:Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia