Neil J. Dorans

I met Neil when I worked at ETS. I learned a lot about test equating from him directly and from his writings. My condolences to his friends and family.

Neil was a mentor to our whole team (CLASS) for many years. He was such a calm and gracious personality which instilled a sense of security in us younger psychometricians. His presence was as certain as the morning dew. We knew that he would come to our rescue whenever we encountered any challenging psychometric issues and needed his steady hand to steer the boat. This is a big loss to ETS. Thank you, Neil, for your gentle spirit, and for all your care and support! Rest in peace.

I had the pleasure of working with Neil on a tough project, very early in my career at ETS. His devotion to work, commitment to fairness, excellence, creativity and professional integrity was inspiring to me as a young test developer. Rest in peace, Neil.

Neil worked in my department at ETS, the College Board Statistical Analysis area. for a number of years. As statistical coordinator for the SAT Neil contributed many insights leading to improvements in equating and other statistical processes important to the SAT. His work on recentering the SAT scale resulted in a scale more appropriate for current test takers. I appreciated the expertise that Neil brought to his work, whether on the SAT or testing in general. He also worked on producing...