Benjamin Drake Wright
Benjamin Drake Wright was an American psychometrician. He is largely responsible for the widespread adoption of Georg Raschs measurement principles and models. In the wake of what Rasch referred to as Wrights almost unbelievable activity in this field in the period from 1960 to 1972, Raschs ideas entered the mainstream in highstakes testing, professional certification and licensure examinations, and in research employing tests, and surveys and assessments across a range of fields. Wrights seminal contributions to measurement continued until 2001, and included articulation of philosophical principles, production of practical results and applications, software development, development of estimation methods and model fit statistics, vigorous support for students and colleagues, and the founding of professional societies and new publications.
Wright was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, on March 30, 1926. He retired in October, 2001.
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