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Provoking Professional Identity Development: The Legacy of Benjamin Drake Wright

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Abstract

Ben Wright’s background in physics and Freudian psychoanalysis , working alongside wide-ranging, deep thinkers attuned to cross-disciplinary matters, like Charles Townes , Bruno Bettelheim , and Ben Bloom , set the stage for creative engagements with educational problems that still resonate with researchers and practitioners, globally. In Rasch’s models for measurement, Wright found a means not only for developing his own professional identity and writing his own life story but for also providing others with the means and media for their own imaginative variations on an invariant .

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67304-2_16

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Fisher, W.P. (2017). Provoking Professional Identity Development: The Legacy of Benjamin Drake Wright. In: Wilson, M., Fisher, Jr., W. (eds) Psychological and Social Measurement. Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67304-2_14

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