Full Name
Nikki Eatchel
Job Title
Chief Assessment Officer
Company
Prometric
Speaker Bio
Nikki Eatchel is a global assessment professional with over 30 years of experience and is currently the Chief Assessment Office for Prometric. She has served in Chief leadership positions in numerous assessment organizations, with her most recent position (prior to Prometric) as Chief Learning Officer for Mursion. In her positions she has worked in various testing segments, including K-12, Higher Education, Certification and Licensure, Pre-Employment and Workforce Development.
She has designed and implemented thousands of assessments with traditional approaches as well as with innovative designs including emulations, simulations, performance-based tasks, and virtual reality assessment. Her career responsibilities have spanned the full spectrum of assessment activities, including job analysis, test design and development, psychometric analysis, reporting, and data analytics. She has been personally responsible for ensuring the validity, fairness, and equity of large-scale, global programs as well as statewide clients, working in some capacity with all 50 states within the U.S. and extensively within Europe, Central America, India, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Asia.
She is a sought-after speaker in the assessment industry and has provided hundreds of presentations at conferences all over the world for keynotes, general sessions, and targeted workshops. She is also a former Board Chair, Board Member, and Committee Member for the Association of Test Publishers, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Personnel Testing Council. Her most recent focus has been in incorporating AI tools ethically and responsibly throughout the assessment process and designing learning and assessments journeys that authentically demonstrate proficiency from early education through lifelong careers.
Her career has also been grounded in standards definition and industry best practices, contributing to the development and evaluation of industry standards and the creation of industry best practices for new and evolving assessment innovations. She has also worked in the arena of employment litigation support (for pre-employment assessments) preparing expert testimony on assessment validity, equity, and fairness.
She has designed and implemented thousands of assessments with traditional approaches as well as with innovative designs including emulations, simulations, performance-based tasks, and virtual reality assessment. Her career responsibilities have spanned the full spectrum of assessment activities, including job analysis, test design and development, psychometric analysis, reporting, and data analytics. She has been personally responsible for ensuring the validity, fairness, and equity of large-scale, global programs as well as statewide clients, working in some capacity with all 50 states within the U.S. and extensively within Europe, Central America, India, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Asia.
She is a sought-after speaker in the assessment industry and has provided hundreds of presentations at conferences all over the world for keynotes, general sessions, and targeted workshops. She is also a former Board Chair, Board Member, and Committee Member for the Association of Test Publishers, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Personnel Testing Council. Her most recent focus has been in incorporating AI tools ethically and responsibly throughout the assessment process and designing learning and assessments journeys that authentically demonstrate proficiency from early education through lifelong careers.
Her career has also been grounded in standards definition and industry best practices, contributing to the development and evaluation of industry standards and the creation of industry best practices for new and evolving assessment innovations. She has also worked in the arena of employment litigation support (for pre-employment assessments) preparing expert testimony on assessment validity, equity, and fairness.
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