Alternate Assessment Content Specialist

As an Alternate Assessment Content Specialist within the Content Development Services team, you will work as both a content and assessment expert to develop K-12 assessments for our state and district clients. Our team develops standards-based assessments for students across the United States. We collaborate with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to develop assessments of learning that are accessible to all students. We are looking for flexible and creative content experts to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and review test items, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, performance-based tasks, and simulations across multiple grade levels for large-scale alternate assessments for students with cognitive disabilities
• Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints and other ancillary documents
• 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 training activities and provide alternate 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
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Some travel required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in education or related field with teaching certification in special education required
• Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher including experience working with special education students required
• Experience working with students in inclusion or resource settings, and experience with modifying curriculum for students with cognitive disabilities
• Professional knowledge of special education, including national trends and regulations
• Some experience with low-incidence, self-contained classrooms, or life-skills student populations preferred
• Some experience in large-scale educational measurement, especially alternate assessment development, preferred
• General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Ability to address challenges creatively and flexibly with a variety of audiences
• Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work on multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events
• Skill in basic software tools and technology and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, New York State, New York City, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows: 

The minimum full-time salary range is between $65,000 - $75,000.

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.

 

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: https://plc.pearson.com/

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