Remote Psychometrician: CAT & IRT Analytics

HMH; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Psychometrician to join the PRDA team within Learning Sciences. The role focuses on psychometric analysis, assessment design, growth research, and statistical programming to advance innovative assessments and documented technical aspects of offerings.

The position involves calibration, equating, and IRT work, with opportunities to lead adaptive testing developments and collaborate across projects. Remote work capability is supported within a national scope.

Qualifications

• Experience with IRT calibration, scaling, and equating.
• Experience with computer adaptive testing.
• Strong R programming skills with CAT simulations.
• Ability to visualize data and support score reporting visualization research.

Responsibilities

• Select analyses to demonstrate the psychometric characteristics of assessments.
• Manage large data files and apply statistical analyses using R and related tools.
• Develop and lead computer adaptive testing algorithms including multistage designs.
• Lead quality assurance and reporting procedures for assessment programs.
• Present technical characteristics of tests and contribute to project specifications.
• Support research publications, conference presentations, and journal submissions.

Skills

Psychometric modeling

Statistical programming

Research methodology

Data analysis

Adaptive testing

Education

PhD in psychometrics

Tools

R

WINSTEPS

FlexMIRT

Excel

Job description

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Psychometrician to join the PRDA team within Learning Sciences. The role focuses on psychometric analysis, assessment design, growth research, and statistical programming to advance innovative assessments and documented technical aspects of offerings.

The position involves calibration, equating, and IRT work, with opportunities to lead adaptive testing developments and collaborate across projects. Remote work capability is supported within a national scope.