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Sara Vispoel, PhD

Chief Assessment and Learning Officer at Finetune
Finetune: A Prometric Company, Iowa, United States

Sara Vispoel, Ph.D., is a pioneer in the intersection of assessment, learning, and generative AI as the Chief Assessment and Learning Officer at Finetuneby Prometric. Her journey began in the classroom as a high school biology teacher, where she first recognized the transformative power and importance of precise assessments. This insight propelled her to pursue a Ph.D. in Educational Measurement and Statistics, driven by a passion to elevate the quality and effectiveness of educational testing. With over 17 years of leadership at ACT, Sara is deeply aware of and profoundly respects the complexities and hurdles involved to develop assessments that are psychometrically sound, elicit valid test score interpretations, while at the same time are high quality, fair, and as engaging as possible for examinees.
Now, at Finetune, Sara is pioneering the integration of AI with psychometrics, principled design, and learning science and incorporating those into test development tools (specifically Finetune Generate® and Finetune Catalog™). In addition to building high quality test items with assessment best practices built in, she is working on applying customized AI to gain conceptual insights, such as helping with job task analyses, test bank gap analyses, and conceptually mapping items to competency frameworks. In a nutshell, Dr. Vispoel’s primary goals: 1) Provide exceptional AI tools steeped in assessment and learning best practice that test developers and examinees will benefit from and 2) Enable herself and others to successfully navigate through the hype/smoke and mirrors of current generative AI claims for assessment in credentialing and education to correctly identify the signal vs. all the noise.

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