Feature | Winsteps | Facets |
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Free student/evaluation software | Ministep | Minifac |
Typical data | Multiple choice tests, true-false items, attitude surveys | Rated performances, sports competitions, paired comparisons |
Data layout | Rectangular: persons & items, 2-facet | 2-facet; 3-facet: persons, items, judges; 4-facet: persons, items, judges, occasions; 5- to 255- facets; one-facet: paired comparisons; and more... |
Data capacity | 9,999,999 persons by 60,000 items | Over 1,600,000 persons + items + judges + tasks +... up to 2 billion observations, tested to 250 million |
Reporting | 30+ major tables, files, plots, graphs | 8+ major tables, files, plots, graphs |
Conceptualization & Interpretation | Simpler | More complex |
Rasch Models | Dichotomous, Andrich Rating-Scale, Masters' Partial Credit, and more | Dichotomous, Andrich Rating-Scale, Masters' Partial Credit, Poisson Counts, Binomial Trials, and more |
Advice | Use Winsteps if the data can be formatted as a rectangle, e.g,, persons-items | Use Facets when Winsteps won't do the job |
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May 17 - June 21, 2024, Fri.-Fri. | On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Core Topics (E. Smith, Winsteps), www.statistics.com |
June 12 - 14, 2024, Wed.-Fri. | 1st Scandinavian Applied Measurement Conference, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden http://www.hkr.se/samc2024 |
June 21 - July 19, 2024, Fri.-Fri. | On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Further Topics (E. Smith, Winsteps), www.statistics.com |
Aug. 5 - Aug. 7, 2024, Mon.-Wed. | 2024 Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement (Berkeley, CA), Call for Proposals |
Aug. 9 - Sept. 6, 2024, Fri.-Fri. | On-line workshop: Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (E. Smith, Facets), www.statistics.com |
Oct. 4 - Nov. 8, 2024, Fri.-Fri. | On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Core Topics (E. Smith, Winsteps), www.statistics.com |
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Oct. 3 - Nov. 7, 2025, Fri.-Fri. | On-line workshop: Rasch Measurement - Core Topics (E. Smith, Winsteps), www.statistics.com |
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