Dr Natarajan's 'Basic Principles of Item Response Theory' (Free Download)

This post is to announce the release of Dr. V. Natarajan's ebook on IRT titled "The Basic Principles of Item Response Theory".

Dr. V. Natarajan is one of the world's leading experts on Item Response Theory. He has worked extensively on theory and applications of IRT. He is passionate about IRT and believes it is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. Through this ebook, he wishes to make IRT accessible and interesting to young learners of assessment theory. He has made this ebook available for free downloads since he wishes it to reach as many students of assessment as possible.

Dr. V. Natarajan, is Professor Emeritus at MeritTrac Services. He is an engineer and a D.Litt in Educational Evaluation and Administration, guides the Test Development and Research teams in MeritTrac. The author of 68 books and over 60 international papers on assessment, he is a pioneer in the area of education assessments in India. He is a visiting faculty at ETS, Princeton, USA, and has been a member of the Association of Indian Universities for over three decades. He had the privilege of being taught the advanced principles of IRT from Dr. Fred Lord of ETS.

You can click the link below to download a copy of the ebook.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8937076/Basic-Principles-of-Item-Response-Theory

Interview with Murlidhar S, CEO

Beyond Teaching CEO, Anirudh Phadke, did an interview with Murlidhar S, and realized that there is much more to Merittrac than assessments. In this over-the-Skype interview, Murlidhar shared this journey of setting up the organization from scratch, the core ideas and the implementation challenges.
He also spoke about how the education scenario will get impacted in the years to come with the advent of technology and how teachers can and must gear up for the inevitable change.

http://soundcloud.com/beyondteaching/an-interview-with-murlidhar/s-hVrhH

MeritTrac Features as a Microsoft Azure Case Study

Microsoft Azure Case Study - MeritTrac's innovative digital solution for education at 


http://tinyurl.com/7x92czc

An Interview with Outsourcing Magazine of Malaysia

An interview with Mohan Kannegal by "The Outsourcing" magazine of Malaysia talking about assessments, skills, education, outsourcing and MeritTrac.

Follow this link http://www.the-outsourcing.com/issue27/#/30/

MeritTrac focussing on PSU Tests - Hindu Business Line article

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/article2470746.ece

Today is MeritTrac's Birthday !

Happy Birthday to MeritTrac ! Founded August 4th 2000. Happy Birthday also to our CEO S Murlidhar.

MeritTrac CEO S Murlidhar on Digital Evaluation

http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_schools-and-colleges-time-to-go-digital_1561059