Draft:Neil J. Dorans

Neil J. Dorans is a retired American psychometrician. He was the main architect for the recentered SAT scales introduced in the mid-1990s. He has also performed linking studies relating the SAT scores to the ACT scores. He also focused on fairness assessment at the item and score levels and introduced the standardization approach to assess item-level fairness in 1983.

Dorans received the Career Contributions Award from the National Council on Measurement in Education in 2010 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. In 2021, he received the Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address Award. He received the ETS Measurement Statistician Award in 2003.

Dorans has edited several books in educational measurement including "Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer", "Fairness in Educational Assessment and Measurement", and "Linking and Aligning Scores and Scales". 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.