Math Assessment Content Specialist

Pearson; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson seeks a Specialist, Content Developer (Mathematics) to join the Asset Creation team and craft K-12 assessments for state and district clients. You’ll combine content expertise with assessment design across grades, leveraging AI to enhance accessibility and quality.

Responsibilities include item development, test blueprints, collaboration with educators, and guiding writers while integrating AI assets into workflows. Strong communication and education trends knowledge are essential.

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.
• 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 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.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review content-specific test items across 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 development, review, and enhancement of assessment content.
• Collaborate with team members to integrate AI-generated assets in assessment workflows.
• Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items.
• 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 including planning, status, review meetings, etc.
• Work closely 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.

Skills

AI in education

Content development

Educational assessment

Prompting AI

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in education or related field

Five years’ teaching experience in content-specific area

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Pearson seeks a Specialist, Content Developer (Mathematics) to join the Asset Creation team and craft K-12 assessments for state and district clients. You’ll combine content expertise with assessment design across grades, leveraging AI to enhance accessibility and quality.

Responsibilities include item development, test blueprints, collaboration with educators, and guiding writers while integrating AI assets into workflows. Strong communication and education trends knowledge are essential.