K-12 ELA Assessments Content Developer

Pearson; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, Content Developer within the English Language Arts Content Development team to build K-12 assessments for state and district clients across the United States. You will act as both content and assessment expert, collaborating with educators and partners to ensure accessibility and alignment to standards.

The role involves developing and reviewing test items, leveraging AI-powered tools, and working with item writers and psychometricians to deliver high-quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education, content-specific area, or equivalent experience required.
• Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of content-specific area preferred.
• Demonstrated excellence in AI-supported content development, or clear evidence of strong potential and readiness to leverage AI effectively in content creation.
• Experience or familiarity with prompting, refining, and evaluating AI-generated content for education purposes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review content-specific test items, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, performance-based tasks, and simulations across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments
• Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, and other ancillary documents
• Leverage AI-powered tools to support the development, review, and enhancement of assessment content, ensuring outputs meet quality and accessibility standards
• Collaborate with team members to integrate AI-generated assets in assessment workflows, providing feedback using content and educational expertise
• 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
• Stay current with emerging technologies relevant to educational content creation and assessment, including AI
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Oral & written communication

AI-supported content development

Adaptability

Collaboration

Project planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in education or equivalent experience

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, Content Developer within the English Language Arts Content Development team to build K-12 assessments for state and district clients across the United States. You will act as both content and assessment expert, collaborating with educators and partners to ensure accessibility and alignment to standards.

The role involves developing and reviewing test items, leveraging AI-powered tools, and working with item writers and psychometricians to deliver high-quality