Assessment Specialist English Language Arts

Pearson; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Assessment Specialist in English Language Arts to develop K-12 assessments for various educational clients. The role requires expertise in ELA content with responsibilities including test item creation and customer consultation, ideal for creative and flexible content experts.

Qualifications

• Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher preferred.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills required.
• Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review ELA test items and passages for assessments.
• Help manage and train item/passage writers in best practices.
• Consult with customers regarding assessment needs and planning.

Skills

Communication

Problem-Solving

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in education or English

Tools

Basic software tools

Job description

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As an Assessment Specialist within the Asset Creation team, you will work as both an ELA content and assessment expert to develop K-12 assessments for our state and district clients. Our team develops standards-based assessments for students across the United States. We collaborate with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to develop assessments of learning that are accessible to all students. We are looking for flexible and creative content experts to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review ELA test items, passages, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, and performance-based tasks, across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments
• Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, and other ancillary documents
• Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices
• Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide content assessment expertise
• Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms
• Consult with the customer as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc.
• Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Some travel required
  
  

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the Colorado, California, Washington State, New York State and New York City laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:

The minimum full-time salary range is between $65,000 - $75,000.

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education, English, or equivalent experience required
• Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of ELA 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
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges with a variety of audiences
• Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events
• Skill in basic software tools and technology and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs
  
  

1132936

Job: Learning Subject Matter Experts

Job Family: LEARNING&CONTENT_DEVELOPMENT

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 20036

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Education and Training

• Industries

  Education Administration Programs and E-Learning Providers

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