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Neil J. Dorans is a retired American psychometrician. He was the main architect for the recentered SAT scales introduced in the mid-1990s. [1] [2] He has also performed linking studies relating the SAT scores to the ACT scores.[3] He also focused on fairness assessment at the item and score levels and introduced the standardization approach to assess item-level fairness in 1983.[4]
Dorans received the Career Contributions Award from the National Council on Measurement in Education in 2010[5] in recognition of his theoretical and technical developments and his ideas that have significantly affected measurement practices. He received the 2017 Association of Test Publishers Career Achievement Award.[6] In 2021, he received the Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address Award.[7] He received the ETS Measurement Statistician Award in 2003.
Dorans has edited several books in educational measurement including "Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer",[8] "Fairness in Educational Assessment and Measurement",[9] and "Linking and Aligning Scores and Scales".[10] He has published numerous journal articles, technical reports, and book chapters on differential item functioning, score equating and score linking, context effects, and item response theory.
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- ^ Dorans, Neil J. (2002). "Recentering and Realigning the SAT Score Distributions: How and Why". Journal of Educational Measurement. 39: 59–84. doi:10.1111/j.1745-3984.2002.tb01135.x. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "SAT 'RECENTERED' FOR STUDENTS' BENEFIT". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "BUROS". Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ Dorans, Neil J.; Schmitt, Alicia P.; Bleistein, Carole A. (1992). "The Standardization Approach to Assessing Comprehensive Differential Item Functioning". Journal of Educational Measurement. 29 (4): 309–319. doi:10.1111/j.1745-3984.1992.tb00379.x. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "Career Contributions Award". Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "2017 Award Winners". Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "Neil Dorans Receives the Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address Award". Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "Computerized Adaptive Testing A Primer". Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "Library of Congress". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ "Harvard Book Store". Retrieved 2024-06-08.