Learning Assessment Lead

asu; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Arizona State University EdPlus seeks a Learning Assessment Lead to partner with faculty, redesign assessments, and create scalable patterns that go beyond traditional exams. You will prototype performance tasks, rubrics, and portfolio artifacts to demonstrate thinking in real-world contexts.

Working in a highly collaborative studio model, you will join data scientists, UX researchers, product managers, instructional designers, and faculty to prove assessment redesign is a powerful lever for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five years of experience in instructional design or related field.
• Two years of managerial experience required.
• Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training accepted that demonstrates knowledge, skills and abilities.

Responsibilities

• Co-create assessments with faculty across courses, replacing traditional exams with performance tasks and portfolios.
• Build reusable assessment templates, rubrics, and implementation guides for broad adoption across disciplines.
• Map curricular pathways by sequencing assessments across degree programs.
• Facilitate faculty cohorts and provide individual coaching through transformation cycles.
• Translate learning science into practical, gradable course revisions.
• Measure the impact of redesigned assessments on student learning, engagement, and persistence.

Skills

Management

Instructional design

Educational assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Profile:

Instructional Technologist 4

Job Family:

Instructional Design and Technology

Time Type:

Full time

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field including two (2) years managerial experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Profile Summary:

Manages individuals that provide instructional design support for in one or more units to develop intermediate to complex resources and materials to support teaching and learning.

Job Description:

Are you a scholar-practitioner who is passionate about assessment redesign? Do you frame redesign as course improvement rather than risk mitigation? Can you solve unique course challenges by creating flexible, scalable design patterns easily adaptable by other faculty? Then keep reading below for this Learning Assessment Lead opportunity!

ASU EdPlus is a dynamic unit of Arizona State University focused on the design and scalable delivery of digital teaching and learning models to increase student success and reduce barriers to achievement in higher education. We advance the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the local, national, and international communities served by ASU.

Want to know more about working at EdPlus? Check out the EdPlus website for more details about us.

We are seeking a Learning Assessment Lead to join our Digital Learning team. For background: assessments set what students read, what they practice, what they skip, and what they remember six months later. Most online assessments were designed for a world in which producing a plausible answer was expensive. That cost has collapsed, and the gap between how courses measure learning and how learning actually happens is now impossible to ignore. Detection is not the answer; redesign is. That will be your focus, alongside faculty, in the courses where it matters most.

Every day you will make a difference in the lives of others by treating academic integrity as a learning outcome produced by good course design rather than a compliance outcome enforced through surveillance. We believe in moving the institution away from proctoring as a default solution, and toward tasks that resist AI completion because they require situated, contextual, human work.

You will co-create assessments with faculty where "did AI do this?" stops being the question, because the task itself leaves verifiable evidence of thinking. You will be prototyping performance tasks, building oral defense rubrics, designing assignments where drafting and revision are part of what gets submitted, and crafting portfolio artifacts that ask students to apply their knowledge as they would in a professional setting.

You will work within a highly collaborative, cross-functional studio model, designing alongside data scientists, user experience researchers, product managers, instructional designers, multimedia producers, and visionary faculty. Together, you will prove that assessment redesign is the most powerful lever we have for course improvement at scale.

This role provides an extraordinary platform: institutional backing, willing faculty partners, and an enterprise scale where a single proven assessment pattern can impact tens of thousands of students. Most professionals tackle this work one course at a time in their spare time; at EdPlus, it is the core mission.

Essential Duties:

• Assessment Design & Patterns
  • Co-Create Authentic Tasks: Partner with faculty to replace traditional exams with performance tasks, oral defenses, simulations, and process-visible portfolios, explicitly shifting away from surveillance and proctoring.
  • Build Scalable Libraries: Document reusable assessment templates, rubrics, and implementation guides for broad adoption across disciplines.
  • Map Curricular Pathways: Sequence assessments across degree programs so student evidence builds logically from course to course.
• Faculty Partnerships & Cohorts
  • Facilitate Faculty Cohorts: Recruit and lead discipline-aligned working groups, guiding faculty through structured assessment transformation cycles in a collaborative ecosystem.
  • Provide Individual Coaching: Mentor faculty through the friction of translating learning science into practical, gradable course revisions.
• Learning Science & Evidence
  • Translate Pedagogical Theory: Ground design choices in backward design, constructive alignment, and cognitive load theory to guide faculty decision-making.
  • Measure Assessment Impact: Partner with cross-functional research teams to evaluate how redesigned assessments affect student learning, engagement, and persistence.
• Assume or coordinate other duties or projects as assigned or directed.

Work Location:

This is an in-person, hybrid position. You must be able to reliably commute to Scottsdale AZ.