Full Name
Kimberly Swygert
Job Title
Director, Test Development Innovations
Company
National Board of Medical Examiners
Speaker Bio
Kimberly Swygert, PhD, is the Director, Test Development Innovations, at NBME. Over the past 25+ years, Dr. Swygert has a proven track record of excellence in the psychometric and health professions education fields across multiple domains, including applied psychometric work and research, test development, innovative item development, test construction, and test security. More recently, her work has focused on the implementation of automated item generation (AIG) technology, the implementation of NLP-based test security methods, the potential for NLP and ML technologies to enhance test development and test construction, and the legal and ethical factors for implementation of AI-based technologies in assessment. Dr. Swygert is the lead on AI-related NBME projects such as the AI Center of Excellence (CoE) and the AI Legal and Ethical Landscape in Assessment. She served two terms on the Board of Directors for the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) and is currently the Vice Chair of the TBA Committee and the co-chair of the TBA AI subcommittee. She presents regularly at conferences such as ATP, the National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME), and the Conference on Test Security (COTS), and has published chapters on item and test development in recent editions of Assessment for Health Professions Education, the Handbook of Test Development, and the Guidelines for Technology-Based Assessment. In 2018, she was inducted as a Fellow into the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Dr. Swygert received her doctorate in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998.
Kimberly Swygert