Login for PhD students at UCPH      Login for others
Modern scale validation using IRT and Rasch models
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3323-21-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 11/05/2021
Date and time11.06.2021, at: 10:00 - 25.06.2021, at: 12:00
Regular seats12
Course fee3,240.00 kr.
LecturersKarl Bang Christensen
ECTS credits2.50
Contact personSusanne Kragskov Laupstad    E-mail address: skl@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.

The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee.


Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Know the basic principles for scale validation using IRT models.
2. Validate a simple PRO scale using state-of-the-art methods.
3. Evaluate the quality of a published questionnaire validation.


Content
The course introduces psychometric models for validation of index scales summarizing information from several items. The course covers item response theory models (including Rasch models), detection and modelling of differential item functioning and local dependence. The computer exercises use SAS or R.


Participants
Ph.D.-students and researchers within medicine, public health, epidemiology, sociology, and psychology. A basic knowledge of statistics will be assumed, as will knowledge of simple methods for scale validation corresponding to the Ph.D. course ‘Introduction to scale validation’.


Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

All graduate programmes


Language
Danish or English


Form
A mixture of lectures and computer exercises. A compulsory exercise is handed out on the last day. Participants who bring relevant data of their own can do a compulsory exercise based on these, if the course director approves this. This exercise needs to be handed in by e-mail no later than three weeks after the last day of the course. Participants should bring their own laptop with SAS or R installed. Working on the compulsory exercise will take approximately 30 hours.


Course director
Associate professor Karl Bang Christensen, Section of Biostatistics; kach@sund.ku.dk


Teachers
Associate professor Karl Bang Christensen.

International external teachers TBA.


Dates
11, 18, 25 June 2021, all days 10-12. In addition, three 2-hour exercise sessions.


Course location
CSS


Registration
Please register before 11 May 2021.

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

Search
Click the search button to search Courses.


Course calendar
See which courses you can attend and when
JanFebMarApr
MayJunJulAug
SepOctNovDec



New courses
Courses are published regularly. High demand courses are announced in spring and autumn.


Learn which courses are announced on fixed dates