ABOUT
SPIRE psychometrics was founded on the goal of providing the best quality of service to any organization from large national exam programs to smaller provincial/territorial exams and everything in between. In addition to being friendly and approachable, we strive to demystify the psychometric processes that organizations must go through in order to build and maintain defensible exam programs. Spire Psychometrics is 100% Canadian owned and operated and we plan to keep it that way, helping to ensure that Canadian organizations that administer assessments are never underserved. At Spire we are committed to our communities and to our environmental obligations, giving back and ensuring that our environmental footprint is minimal as we serve our clients.
GREG SADESKY, PhD
PSYCHOMETRICIAN & PARTNER
Greg has served the testing and applied research communities since the early 2000's. He specializes in creating psychometric solutions for the certification & licensure sector, mostly in Canada. Before starting Spire Psychometrics in 2018, he was the EVP Psychometrics & Chief Scientific Officer for Yardstick Assessment Strategies, in which he served since 2010.
Greg’s professional mission is to carefully understand client needs and to connect them with testing solutions that meet and exceed expectations. He provides excellent value to clients through his extensive experience in creating defensible examinations, his ability to incorporate emerging best practice, and his partnerships with other providers and industry thought leaders. Greg’s goal is to provide industry-leading psychometric and testing solutions, aligned with the needs and constraints of client organizations.
GREG POPE, MSc
PSYCHOMETRICIAN & PARTNER
Greg Pope is a psychometrician with over 25 years of experience in the area of high stakes assessment. With Spire Greg works with clients applying his experience in the area of certification/licensure testing to improve the defensibility of high stakes assessment programs. Prior to joining Spire Psychometrics Greg was the Director of Examinations at the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), the largest regulator in western Canada, for almost 10 years. Prior to working with APEGA Greg gained experience working with Canadian and international assessment companies developing and managing high stakes assessment programs and psychometric consulting services. In these roles Greg designed software and reporting approaches in many areas of psychometric analyses of high stakes assessment data such as item bank composition visualization reports, result reporting at candidate and multiple organizational levels, collusion detection on and test security, Classical Test Theory item and test analysis, non-parametric item response modeling, as well as differential item functioning analysis and group difference reporting. Prior to working in the private sector Greg worked as a psychometrician with the Alberta government in the area of large-scale high stakes provincial educational assessment.
