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Neil J. Dorans was 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 focused on fairness assessment at the item and score levels and introduced the standardization approach to assess item-level fairness in 1983.^[4] He unexpectedly passed away in September, 2025.

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]

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.