Content Developer, English Language Arts
Pearson VUE
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $65,000 - $75,000 per year
About the role
- 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
- 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 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
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Some travel required
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in education, content-specific area, 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
- 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
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
- Information on benefits offered is here
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
test item developmenttest specificationsitem development planstest blueprintscontent assessment expertiselarge-scale assessmentseducational measurementscoringreporting
Soft Skills
oral communicationwritten communicationproblem-solvingplanningorganizational skillsflexibilitycreativityadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in education