Science Content & AI Assessment Specialist

Pearson; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Specialist – Science (Physical Sciences) within Content Development to develop K-12 assessments for state and district clients in the United States. You will act as both a content and assessment expert, collaborating with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to ensure accessible, standards-based assessments.

Responsibilities include creating and reviewing test items, leveraging AI tools, guiding item writers, and facilitating customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry, 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 evidence of strong potential to leverage AI in content creation.
• Experience or familiarity with prompting, refining, and evaluating AI-generated content for education purposes.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills; ability to work on multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review content-specific test items across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments.
• Help develop item and test specifications, blueprints, and ancillary documents.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to support development, review, and enhancement of assessment content while meeting accessibility standards.
• Collaborate with team members to integrate AI-generated assets in assessment workflows.
• Select, assign, manage, and train item writers and educators to develop items based on standards.
• Facilitate customer meetings and provide content assessment expertise.
• Support test construction and review of composed test forms.
• Consult with customers and participate in planning and status meetings.
• Work with test development managers, content developers, psychometricians, and Pearson groups.
• Stay current with emerging technologies relevant to educational content creation and AI.

Skills

AI-powered tools

AI content development

Communication skills

Collaboration across teams

Prompting AI-generated content

Educational trends awareness

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics or chemistry

Equivalent experience

Tools

Basic software tools

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist – Science (Physical Sciences) within Content Development to develop K-12 assessments for state and district clients in the United States. You will act as both a content and assessment expert, collaborating with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to ensure accessible, standards-based assessments.

Responsibilities include creating and reviewing test items, leveraging AI tools, guiding item writers, and facilitating customer