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As a Social Studies…
Content Specialist within the Asset Creation 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 social studies test items and stimuli, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, and performance-based tasks across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments.
• Help develop social studies 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 social studies items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices.
• Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide social studies 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, social studies, or equivalent experience required.
• Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary social studies teacher preferred.
• Professional knowledge of social studies 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.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges 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.
Schedule and Work Setup:
• Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ET.
• Work from home with Pearson supplied hardware and support. (Employees are responsible for securing reliable internet.)
Job: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Organization: Assessment & Qualifications
Schedule:
Workplace Type: Remote
Req : 16284
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