Sara Vispoel

Sara Vispoel, Ph.D., is a pioneer in the intersection of assessment, learning, and generative AI as the Chief Assessment and Learning Officer at Finetune: A Prometric Company. 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, Dr. Vispoel has been at the forefront of the standardized testing debate while overseeing the development of the ACT college entrance test through 2020. She is deeply aware of and profoundly respects the complexities and hurdles involved to develop high-stakes assessments that are psychometrically sound, eliciting valid test score interpretations, while at the same time are high quality, fair, and engaging as possible for examinees. Now, at Finetune, Dr. Vispoel 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™). 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) Successfully navigate through the hype/smoke and mirrors of current generative AI claims for education.