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Tests as Contests, Overview of NCME Fairness Volume, and a Welcome Challenge

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Research Meeting:  Fairness in Educational and Psychological Tests: Issues and Solutions
October 12-13, 2017

Hosted by the Buros Center for Testing with conference grant funding from American Educational Research Association (AERA)
      
LENGTH: 15 minutes

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY: 

Dr. Neil J. Dorans is a Distinguished Presidential Appointee in the Center for Statistical and Psychometric Theory and Practice in R&D at ETS. He received his Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of Illinois. His work has focused on fairness at the item and score levels, and on equating and scaling.  Neil proposed a procedure for assessing differential item functioning in the early 1980s. Neil was the architect for the recentered SAT scales
introduced in the mid-1990s. He has also performed linking studies relating the SAT to the ACT, and developed procedures and guidelines for assessing the quality of score linkings.

Last year, Neil and Linda Cook edited an NCME volume, Fairness in educational assessment and measurement. Neil is also the lead editor of Linking and aligning scores and scales, and Looking back: Proceedings of a conference in honor of Paul W. Holland.. Neil has published numerous journal articles and technical reports, and has written book chapters on differential item functioning, score equating and score linking, context effects, item response theory.

Neil received the ETS Measurement Statistician Award in 2003 for, among other things, his work on recentering the SAT and the role he played in mentoring staff on score linking and fairness issues. In 2010, he received the National Council on Measurement in Education’s Career Contributions Award in recognition of his substantial and creative theoretical and technical developments, and his innovative ideas that have significantly affected measurement practices. More recently, Neil received the 2017 ATP Career Achievement Award.
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TITLE: Tests as Contests, Overview of NCME Fairness Volume, and a Welcome Challenge LENGTH: 15 minutes BIO: Dr. Neil J. Dorans is a Distinguished Presidential Appointee in the Center for Statistical and Psychometric Theory and Practice in R&D at ETS. He received his Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of Illinois. His work has focused on fairness at the item and score levels, and on equating and scaling. Neil proposed a procedure for assessing differential item functioning in the early 1980s. Neil was the architect for the recentered SAT scales introduced in the mid-1990s. He has also performed linking studies relating the SAT to the ACT, and developed procedures and guidelines for assessing the quality of score linkings. Last year, Neil and Linda Cook edited an NCME volume, Fairness in educational assessment and measurement. Neil is also the lead editor of Linking and aligning scores and scales, and Looking back: Proceedings of a conference in honor of Paul W. Holland.. Neil has published numerous journal articles and technical reports, and has written book chapters on differential item functioning, score equating and score linking, context effects, item response theory. Neil received the ETS Measurement Statistician Award in 2003 for, among other things, his work on recentering the SAT and the role he played in mentoring staff on score linking and fairness issues. In 2010, he received the National Council on Measurement in Education’s Career Contributions Award in recognition of his substantial and creative theoretical and technical developments, and his innovative ideas that have significantly affected measurement practices. More recently, Neil received the 2017 ATP Career Achievement Award.