Scandinavian Applied Measurement Conference (SAMC2024)

The Scandinavian Applied Measurement Conference (SAMC) aims to facilitate interaction and knowledge exchange among researchers, practitioners, and students.

The SAMC theme is applied measurement, focusing on rating scales and other category-based measurement and assessment instruments. Papers on development, evaluation and quality assurance using Rasch measurement theory and related approaches are welcome. Person-centred measurement, which emphasize the role of the individual person in the measurement process and analyses, as well as the use and interpretation of results at the level of the individual person, is encouraged.

The conference will be multidisciplinary and cover fields such as the health, social, educational, behavioral, and related sciences.

Conference registration is closed!

Preliminary Program

June 12

09.00-12.00 Pre-conference workshop: Magnus Johansson.

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.15 Opening
13.15-14.45 Key note: Dr. I Marais.
15.00-17.15 Sessions

19.00-           Dinner

June 13

08.00-12.10 Sessions

12.10-13.10 Lunch

13.10-14.30 Poster pitch and Poster session
14.30-16.50 Sessions

19.00-           Dinner

June 14

08.00-11.15 Sessions
11.15-11.30 Closing

11.30-12.30 Lunch

12.30-15.30 Post-conference workshop: Prof. David Andrich, Dr. Ida  Marais and Sonia Sappl.

Follow the links for more details about the program.

Instructions for presenters

Follow the link for more information about information and instructions about oral and poster presentations.

Venue

The conference will be held at Kristianstad University, building 17. Kristianstad is situated within an easy reach of Europe by air or by train. High-speed trains connect Kristianstad to Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen and Malmö. 

How to get to Kristianstads University and how to find your way around Kristianstad

Accomodation

For participant´s in the conference SAMC 2024 we are recommending booking a hotel in central Kristianstad.

Organizing committee

Prof. Peter Hagell, Chair, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden
Prof. Karl Bang Christensen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Jeanette Melin, Swedish Defence University, Karlstad, Sweden
Prof. Albert Westergren, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden
Prof. Kristofer Årestedt, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden