• Introduction: Extending the Rasch Model.- Introduction: Extending the Rasch Model.- Multivariate and Mixture Rasch Models.- Measurement Models as Narrative Structures.- Testing Generalized Rasch Models.- The Mixed-Coefficients Multinomial Logit Model: A Generalized Form of the Rasch Model.- Loglinear Multivariate and Mixture Rasch Models.- Mixture-Distribution and HYBRID Rasch Models.- Generalized Models—Specific Research Questions.- Application of the Saltus Model to Stagelike Data: Some Applications and Current Developments.- Determination of Diagnostic Cut-Points Using Stochastically Ordered Mixed Rasch Models.- A HYBRID Model for Test Speededness.- Multidimensional Three-Mode Rasch Models.- (Almost) Equivalence Between Conditional and Mixture Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Some Models of the Rasch Type.- Rasch Models for Longitudinal Data.- The Interaction Model.- Multilevel Rasch Models.- Applications of Multivariate and Mixed Rasch Models.- Mixed Rasch Models for Measurement in Cognitive Psychology.- Detecting Response Styles and Faking in Personality and Organizational Assessments by Mixed Rasch Models.- Application of Multivariate Rasch Models in International Large-Scale Educational Assessments.- Studying Development via Item Response Models: A Wide Range of Potential Uses.- A Comparison of the Rasch Model and Constrained Item Response Theory Models for Pertinent Psychological Test Data.- Latent-Response Rasch Models for Strategy Shifts in Problem-Solving Processes.- Validity and Objectivity in Health-Related Scales: Analysis by Graphical Loglinear Rasch Models.- Applications of Generalized Rasch Models in the Sport, Exercise, and the Motor Domains.

From the reviews: "This is a collection of 22 chapters on research and development work on various extensions of the Rasch model. ... The single chapters are written by internationally recognized experts in the fields. ... Since the volume reflects the recent developments in the field it will be certainly a useful source up to date information. It will be certainly useful to the people working in educational research and social sciences." (Marie Huskova, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1117 (19), 2007) "This book, published in honor of the retirement of Jurgen Rost, is an edited volume of 22 invited chapters written by eminent researchers in the field of item response theory (IRT). The chapters are relatively accessible for a reader with a background in IRT and describe interesting and useful extensions to the familiar unidimensional Rasch measurement model (RM) to more complex multidimensional measurement and statistical models." (Allan S. Cohen, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 103 (481), 2008)