Esther Dasari Dale, Ph.D., is the Director of Psychometric Assessment at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She has trained over 50 medical students in item writing and along with them, she is currently producing a bank of 10,000 preclinical science high validity items. She has taught science and science methods from kindergarten to graduate school. She has served as an item writer, subject matter expert, data reviewer, bias reviewer and standard setter for high school, college, and professional licensing exams.