AI-Powered Science Assessment Content Specialist

Pearson; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual incentive program

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Specialist – Science (Physical Sciences) to join the Content Development team. You will develop and review science assessment items, leverage AI tools, and collaborate with educators and psychometricians to ensure high-quality, standards-based content for K-12 and large-scale assessments.

You will work with test development managers, writers, and stakeholders, supporting customer meetings and client planning, while staying current with emerging AI technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry, or equivalent experience required.
• Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of content-specific area preferred.
• Professional knowledge of content-specific area and educational trends required.
• Some experience in large-scale, educational measurement preferred.
• General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred.
• Demonstrated excellence in AI-supported content development or strong potential to leverage AI in content creation.
• Experience or familiarity with prompting, refining, and evaluating AI-generated content for education purposes.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on multiple activities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review content-specific test items across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments.
• Help develop item specifications, test blueprints, and ancillary documents.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to support assessment content development and ensure quality and accessibility.
• Collaborate to integrate AI-generated assets in assessment workflows and provide feedback.
• Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards and cognitive complexity.
• Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide content assessment expertise.
• Facilitate test construction and review of composed test forms.
• Consult with customers in planning and status meetings.
• Work with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and Pearson groups.
• Stay current with emerging technologies relevant to educational content creation and assessment, including AI.
• Some travel required.

Skills

Content development

AI in education

Communication

Project coordination

Prompting AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics/chemistry or equivalent

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist – Science (Physical Sciences) to join the Content Development team. You will develop and review science assessment items, leverage AI tools, and collaborate with educators and psychometricians to ensure high-quality, standards-based content for K-12 and large-scale assessments.

You will work with test development managers, writers, and stakeholders, supporting customer meetings and client planning, while staying current with emerging AI technologies.