Remote Science Assessments Content Specialist

Pearson; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 70.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Pearson seeks a Specialist – Science (Physical Sciences) within Content Development to develop K-12 assessments for state and district clients nationwide.

You will act as content and assessment expert, leveraging AI to create, review, and enhance items, passages, and test forms, while ensuring accessibility and alignment to standards. Collaborate with educators, psychometricians, and Pearson teams; travel may be required to train writers and attend client meetings.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of content-specific area.
• Professional knowledge of content-specific area and educational trends.
• Some experience in large-scale, educational measurement.
• General knowledge of development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments.
• Experience leveraging AI in content development.
• Familiarity with prompting, refining, and evaluating AI-generated content for education.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new AI technologies.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Aufgaben

• 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
• 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
• Some travel required

Kenntnisse

Oral and written communication

Creative problem solving

Ability to work with AI tools

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in physics or chemistry

Tools

AI tools in education

Educational technology software

Jobbeschreibung

Pearson seeks a Specialist – Science (Physical Sciences) within Content Development to develop K-12 assessments for state and district clients nationwide.

You will act as content and assessment expert, leveraging AI to create, review, and enhance items, passages, and test forms, while ensuring accessibility and alignment to standards. Collaborate with educators, psychometricians, and Pearson teams; travel may be required to train writers and attend client meetings.