AI-powered tools for standardized-test preparation
Designs and deploys AI-supported educational tools, including an assistant for test preparation, and trains teams to use generative AI critically and effectively.
Federico Escobar
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AI × Education
Building human-centered learning tools with AI—without losing the judgment that makes them trustworthy.
02Assessment
Creating fair, rigorous assessments that measure what matters—and help people grow.
03Editorial systems
Turning editorial and communication judgment into standards, workflows, and systems teams can share.
04Writing
Turning complex ideas into language people can understand, remember, and use.
Featured work
Four systems for making judgment visible
01AI × Education
Designing AI-supported learning and assessment tools
At Open Green Road, I help shape AI-powered educational tools, digital assessment platforms, and test preparation for learners across Latin America.
- Open Green Road
- Latin America
- AI-supported learning
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The useful question is not whether AI can produce more content. It is whether it can help people think, learn, and make better judgments—without losing the human standards that make the work trustworthy.
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An AI designed to help with the PAES: How do I use nutrIA to prepare?
A practical session for students on using an AI assistant responsibly and effectively while preparing for Chile's university admissions test.
Let me introduce you to the artificial intelligences
A public-facing column that replaces the singular myth of AI with a more useful view of distinct systems, capabilities, and choices.
What is ChatGPT?
An accessible explanation of ChatGPT and the habits of judgment readers need when working with generative systems.
How to use AI bots in creative writing
A three-hour workshop exploring practical and critical uses of generative AI in creative-writing practice.
02Assessment at scale
Building fair, rigorous assessments
At the College Board, I led work on PIENSE and English assessments used across Puerto Rico and Latin America—joining psychometric rigor with clear language.
- College Board
- PIENSE
- Bilingual assessment
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Assessment becomes useful when rigor and clarity reinforce one another. The work connects evidence, editorial craft, and the lived experience of the person sitting the test.
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Direction of PIENSE and English test development
Directed PIENSE and coordinated English assessment across the regional exam suite, from specifications and item development to fairness, editing, and form assembly.
Spanish and English language-test development
Worked across the complete language-test lifecycle: writer assignments, expert committees, passage selection and leveling, editorial review, and final production.
Aligning language tests with the Common European Framework
A conference on connecting language-assessment design and interpretation to the Common European Framework of Reference.
The Future of Assessment and Global Standards
A panel discussion about the future of assessment and the opportunities and tensions created by international standards.
Tools to Assess English Proficiency in Latin America
A conference on instruments and interpretive frameworks for assessing English proficiency in Latin American contexts.
03Editorial systems
Turning editorial judgment into repeatable systems
At Grupo Editorial Norma and in later editorial work, I translated expert judgment into standards, workflows, and content systems—in English and Spanish.
- Editorial leadership
- Bilingual systems
- Standards + workflow
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A good system does not replace judgment. It makes judgment visible: criteria can be taught, debated, tested, and improved instead of remaining trapped in one expert’s intuition.
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Editorial systems for educational publishing
Built style guides, selection tools, schedules, and quality workflows for multilingual textbook projects involving authors, translators, editors, designers, and illustrators.
Academic direction for learning, assessment, and AI
Leads academic foundations, standards, teams, and product innovation for educational platforms and test preparation across Latin America.
Law teaching and editorship of Criterio Jurídico
Taught legal history and legal English while editing a peer-reviewed journal, developing its style guide, citation system, review process, and final publication.
Personal Writing Assistant
A 176-page practical guide to clearer, more effective writing in Spanish.
The Sense of Style: Writing Clearly and Reading Carefully
An advanced workshop connecting precise prose, close reading, and the editorial decisions that make meaning clearer.
04Writing in public
Writing where language, learning, and AI meet
Through teaching, workshops, essays for El País, fiction, and literary criticism, I explore how language shapes thought—and how AI is changing both.
- El País
- Best Microfiction 2025
- Vheissu
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The genres change, but the concern remains constant: how language guides attention, reveals assumptions, and gives an idea a form another person can actually use.
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Selected for Best Microfiction 2025
“Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster” was selected for the 2025 edition of the annual anthology.
Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster
A microfiction later selected for Best Microfiction 2025.
Angela
A short story published in issue 45 of Cleaver Magazine.
Death and Other Things Confused with Love
A Spanish-language collection of short fiction published in 2013.
The Forms of Silence
A short story that received the 2010 Cosecha Eñe Audience Award.
About
The work is different. The question is the same.
I began with a typewriter. Today I work where language, learning, and intelligent systems meet. For nearly two decades, I have designed assessments, led editorial teams, taught writing, and built educational products across the Americas. My work moves between English and Spanish, analysis and invention, institutions and classrooms.
See the workNearly two decadesacross learning, assessment, and publishing
Two languagesone exacting editorial practice
Published writing
Essays, fiction, criticism, and columns.
These publications span AI and education, fiction and microfiction, and literary criticism. The Ledger maps the public record; Vheissu holds the long literary archive.
01EssaysAI, education, and the uses of judgment02FictionStories, microfiction, and compressed worlds03CriticismVheissu: fifteen years of attentive reading
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