Assessment Specialist English Language Arts

Pearson; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Assessment Specialist for English Language Arts to develop K-12 assessments. The role involves collaborating with education partners and requires a Bachelor's degree in education or English. The ideal candidate will have five years of experience in the ELA field and strong communication and organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Five years' experience in the ELA field preferred.
• Professional knowledge of educational trends required.
• Experience in large-scale educational measurement preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review ELA test items across multiple grade levels.
• Help develop item specifications and item development plans.
• Facilitate customer meetings and provide content expertise.

Skills

Outstanding oral and written communication skills

Planning

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

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

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 available here.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education, English, or equivalent experience required
• Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the ELA field 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

Job ID: 1134180

Job: Learning Subject Matter Experts

Job Family: LEARNING & CONTENT_DEVELOPMENT

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 20036

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Education and Training

Industries

• Education Administration Programs and E-Learning Providers