Dr Jason Fan is Deputy Director and Principal Research Fellow at the Language Testing Research Centre (LTRC), University of Melbourne. His research interests include test validity and validation, speaking and writing assessment, Rasch measurement theory, and the social and political dimensions of language assessment.

His recent books include Applying Rasch measurement theory in language assessment (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2024), Fairness, Justice and Language Assessment (with Tim McNamara and Ute Knoch, Oxford University Press, 2019), Working Towards a Proficiency Scale of Business English Writing: A Mixed-Methods Approach (with Li Wang, Springer, 2021), and The Development and Validation of Standards in Language Testing (Fudan University Press, 2018).

He currently serves as Co-President of Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA), and has previously served on the Executive Committee of the International Language Testing Association (ILTA) as well as on several ILTA committees. He is on the editorial boards of Language Testing and Studies in Language Assessment, and served as the Co-Editor of Studies in Language Assessment (with Professor John Read) from 2020 to 2024.

He is the recipient of the 'Reviewer of the Year Award' from the journal Language Testing in 2023, the 'PLTA Best Paper Award (2016-2018)' from Association for Language Testing and Assessment in Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ), and the Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award from Shanghai Municipal Education Commission in 2018 and Fudan University in 2017.

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