Benjamin D Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin D Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0551-3473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
This is a fantastic book. In a sweeping history of religion and race in the United States, Kathryn Gin Lum's Heathen offers an elegant narrative that succeeds as both archivally compelling revisionism and stunning synthesis. It deserves a wide readership and will likely direct conversations in the historiography of religion and race for the foreseeable future. Lum's primary intervention convincingly rejects what she calls “the replacement narrati…
Constructing intergroup relationships in social communication
People communicate with each other about their ingroup and outgroup in a social context. These social communications may have profound effects in constructing intergroup relationships. In this paper, we outline how different combinations of the social identities of the sender, receiver, and target of the social communication may give rise to differing face concerns of the ingroup and outgroup, and may result in different patterns of communication…
Playing for Stakes: German-Language Drama in Social Context. Essays in Honor of Herbert Lederer
Interjudge Reliability and Decision Reproducibility
The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of decision reproducibility for performance assessments. When decisions from two judges about a student's performance using comparable tasks correlate, decisions have been considered reproducible. However, when judges differ in expectations and tasks differ in difficulty, decisions may not be independent of the particular judges or tasks encountered unless appropriate adjustments for the ob…
Psychometric CHaracteristics of Scores on a Patient Management Problem Test
Total scores on a patient management problem (PMP) test can be divided into two subscores-one based on all options keyed select; the other, on all options keyed omit. A pervasive feature of the component scores, across a variety of examinations studied, is that they are correlated negatively. This negative correlation is reflected in reduced discrimination indices and reliability for the total test scores. The implications of this finding for pre…
Validity and Reliability of True-False Tests
A model of examinee behavior based on knowledge and random guessing is used to generate hypotheses about how true-false scores work. Although others have expressed reservations about the simplicity and utility of such a model, it leads to informative ideas. The confirmation of six hypotheses forms a network of support for the contention that true-false scores contain an error component (due to guessing) that makes these scores less reliable than …
Measuring Attending Behavior and Short-Term Memory with Knox's Cube Test
Knox's Cube Test has been used in ability tests since 1915. Most of these test batteries are out of print or dated. A new revision was developed using Rasch psychometric techniques to build a KCT variable and item bank using the tapping series from all previous editions. This new KCT edition now links all previous versions. The report forms developed give a clear and straight-forward picture of the subject's performance set in a context which is …
Education, Inequality, and National Policy
Solving Measurement Problems With the Rasch Model
Journal of Educational MeasurementVolume 14, Issue 2 p. 97-116 SOLVING MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS WITH THE RASCH MODEL BENJAMIN D. WRIGHT, Corresponding Author BENJAMIN D. WRIGHT University of ChicagoWRIGHT, BENJAMIN D. Address: 5721 Harper Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Title: Professor. Degrees: B.S. Cornell University, Certificate. Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Specialization: Psychoanalytic Psychology; Psychometric …
Conditional Versus Unconditional Procedures for Sample-Free Item Analysis
Two procedures for Rasch, sample-free, item calibration are reviewed and compared for accuracy. Andersen's (1972) theoretically ideal "conditional" procedure is impractical for calibrating more than 10 or 15 items. A simplified alternative procedure for conditional estimation practical for 20 or 30 items which produces equivalent estimates is developed. When more than 30 items are analyzed recourse to Wright's (1969) widely used "unconditional" p…
Our reason for teaching
Benjamin D. Wright Department of Education University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois XW lhatever we may claim about how and why we finally got into teaching, we know we came under the spell of our vocation early. We began learning how to be teachers when we began school and we studied teaching, however inadvertantly, for 16 years or more. Our education for teaching and our idea of school is deeply and irrevocably influenced by our own school experi…
A Procedure for Sample-Free Item Analysis
Career dreams of teachers
Who is the teacher
The authors contend that teacher types are determined, to a large extent, by identification with parents and former teachers. Mr. Wright is associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Chicago. Miss Sherman is a research associate with the California State Department of Public Health
The Meanings of Color
(1962). The Meanings of Color. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 89-99
Direct Factor Analysis in Sociometry
Psychiatric consultation in residential treatment: Workshop, 1957: 3. The psychologist's view
The Meanings of Color
(1962). The Meanings of Color. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 89-99
Our reason for teaching
Benjamin D. Wright Department of Education University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois XW lhatever we may claim about how and why we finally got into teaching, we know we came under the spell of our vocation early. We began learning how to be teachers when we began school and we studied teaching, however inadvertantly, for 16 years or more. Our education for teaching and our idea of school is deeply and irrevocably influenced by our own school experi…
Direct Factor Analysis in Sociometry
Who is the teacher
The authors contend that teacher types are determined, to a large extent, by identification with parents and former teachers. Mr. Wright is associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Chicago. Miss Sherman is a research associate with the California State Department of Public Health
Psychiatric consultation in residential treatment: Workshop, 1957: 3. The psychologist's view
Direct Factor Analysis in Sociometry
The Meanings of Color
(1962). The Meanings of Color. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 89-99
Who is the teacher
The authors contend that teacher types are determined, to a large extent, by identification with parents and former teachers. Mr. Wright is associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Chicago. Miss Sherman is a research associate with the California State Department of Public Health
Career dreams of teachers
A Procedure for Sample-Free Item Analysis
Solving Measurement Problems With the Rasch Model
Journal of Educational MeasurementVolume 14, Issue 2 p. 97-116 SOLVING MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS WITH THE RASCH MODEL BENJAMIN D. WRIGHT, Corresponding Author BENJAMIN D. WRIGHT University of ChicagoWRIGHT, BENJAMIN D. Address: 5721 Harper Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Title: Professor. Degrees: B.S. Cornell University, Certificate. Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Specialization: Psychoanalytic Psychology; Psychometric …
Conditional Versus Unconditional Procedures for Sample-Free Item Analysis
Two procedures for Rasch, sample-free, item calibration are reviewed and compared for accuracy. Andersen's (1972) theoretically ideal "conditional" procedure is impractical for calibrating more than 10 or 15 items. A simplified alternative procedure for conditional estimation practical for 20 or 30 items which produces equivalent estimates is developed. When more than 30 items are analyzed recourse to Wright's (1969) widely used "unconditional" p…
Our reason for teaching
Benjamin D. Wright Department of Education University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois XW lhatever we may claim about how and why we finally got into teaching, we know we came under the spell of our vocation early. We began learning how to be teachers when we began school and we studied teaching, however inadvertantly, for 16 years or more. Our education for teaching and our idea of school is deeply and irrevocably influenced by our own school experi…
Education, Inequality, and National Policy
Measuring Attending Behavior and Short-Term Memory with Knox's Cube Test
Knox's Cube Test has been used in ability tests since 1915. Most of these test batteries are out of print or dated. A new revision was developed using Rasch psychometric techniques to build a KCT variable and item bank using the tapping series from all previous editions. This new KCT edition now links all previous versions. The report forms developed give a clear and straight-forward picture of the subject's performance set in a context which is …
Validity and Reliability of True-False Tests
A model of examinee behavior based on knowledge and random guessing is used to generate hypotheses about how true-false scores work. Although others have expressed reservations about the simplicity and utility of such a model, it leads to informative ideas. The confirmation of six hypotheses forms a network of support for the contention that true-false scores contain an error component (due to guessing) that makes these scores less reliable than …
Psychometric CHaracteristics of Scores on a Patient Management Problem Test
Total scores on a patient management problem (PMP) test can be divided into two subscores-one based on all options keyed select; the other, on all options keyed omit. A pervasive feature of the component scores, across a variety of examinations studied, is that they are correlated negatively. This negative correlation is reflected in reduced discrimination indices and reliability for the total test scores. The implications of this finding for pre…
Interjudge Reliability and Decision Reproducibility
The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of decision reproducibility for performance assessments. When decisions from two judges about a student's performance using comparable tasks correlate, decisions have been considered reproducible. However, when judges differ in expectations and tasks differ in difficulty, decisions may not be independent of the particular judges or tasks encountered unless appropriate adjustments for the ob…
Playing for Stakes: German-Language Drama in Social Context. Essays in Honor of Herbert Lederer
Constructing intergroup relationships in social communication
People communicate with each other about their ingroup and outgroup in a social context. These social communications may have profound effects in constructing intergroup relationships. In this paper, we outline how different combinations of the social identities of the sender, receiver, and target of the social communication may give rise to differing face concerns of the ingroup and outgroup, and may result in different patterns of communication…
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
This is a fantastic book. In a sweeping history of religion and race in the United States, Kathryn Gin Lum's Heathen offers an elegant narrative that succeeds as both archivally compelling revisionism and stunning synthesis. It deserves a wide readership and will likely direct conversations in the historiography of religion and race for the foreseeable future. Lum's primary intervention convincingly rejects what she calls “the replacement narrati…
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