Location:

University of Copenhagen, Centre for Health and Society (Center for Sundhed og Samfund in Danish, abbreviated CSS). Located at the former municipal hospital of Copenhagen (Kommunehospitalet) right across from the Botanical Garden and next to the inner Copenhagen lakes.

Software:

R will be used, for a crash course and some info on how to get started:

http://r.sund.ku.dk/

If you want to run analyses online

https://rstudio.cloud/

Teachers:

Karl Bang Christensen	University of Copenhagen
Tim Pickles	Cardiff University
Mike Horton	University of Leeds

First day:

Thursday May 8, 2025, 10.00-17.00, CSS, room 7.0.01 (Building 7, see map below)

Time		Title	link
10.00- 10.30	Karl Bang Christensen	Introduction
10.45- 11.45	Mike Horton	The Rasch Measurement Model: Introduction	Horton - Rasch Intro - Rasch Appl - June 2024 - Copenhagen.pptx
12.00- 12.30	Karl Bang Christensen	Rasch model: parameter estimation and visualization in R	Item-and-person-parameters.html

13.15-14.00		Exercises	Exercise 1
			biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/psychometric-validation-1a.html
14.15- 15.00	Mike Horton	The Rasch Measurement Model: Application	Horton - Rasch Intro - Rasch Appl - June 2024 - Copenhagen-1.pptx
15.15- 16.00	Karl Bang Christensen	Evaluation of item fit in the Rasch model	biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/psychometric-validation-2.html Buchardt et al
16.15- 17.00		Exercises	Exercise 2

Second day:

Friday May 9, 2025, 10.00-17.00, CSS, room 7.0.01 (Building 7, see map below)

		Title	link
10.00- 11.00	Karl Bang Christensen	Rasch model: tests for DIF	biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/psychometric-validation-3.html
		Rasch model: tests for LD
11.15- 12.00		Exercises	biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/R-code-from-part-3.html
12.15- 12.30		Q+A

13.15- 14.30	Karl Bang Christensen	More about Rasch models: visualizations
14.45- 16.15		Exercises	Free time to work on the exam in groups
16.30- 17.00	Karl Bang Christensen	Q&A	Questions, also about exam, are welcome

Worked examples

biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/Spurious-evidence.html

If you want to read more about Rasch/IRT:

Andrich, D., & Marais, I. (2019). A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory. Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7496-8

van der linden, W. J., & Hambleton, R. K. (1997). Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory (W. J. van der Linden & R. K. Hambleton (eds.)). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2691-6

Christensen, K. B., Kreiner, S., & Mesbah, M. (Eds.). (2012). Rasch Models in Health. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118574454

CSS:

Bulding 35: Gammeltoftsgade, 1355 København

Course description: https://phdcourses.ku.dk/DetailKursus.aspx?id=111422