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Content Specialist - English Language Learners (12 Month Limited Term)
Pearson VUE
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $60,000 - $70,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Develop and review test items, including proficiency-based tasks, for large-scale English learner assessments across multiple content areas and grades
- Develop linguistic accommodations for English learners across content areas on state standardized achievement tests
- Develop accommodations for struggling readers across content areas on state standardized achievement tests
- Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints and other ancillary documents
- Classify test items according to pre-specified content dimensions and ensure the accuracy of content coding, keying, and item validations
- Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide second language acquisition expertise
- Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms
- Help select, assign, manage, and train item writers and educators
- 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 preferred; Bilingual, English as a Second Language, or equivalent experience required; Master\'s degree is desired
- At least five years experience teaching K-12 is required
- At least five years experience in the field of English language acquisition required
- Expert knowledge of second language acquisition, including national trends and regulations, required
- Have strong technology skills including working with Microsoft Suite and Adobe Pro, and confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs
- Have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and be able to identify problems and provide solutions to a variety of audiences including both sophisticated and naive customers
- Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and ability to coordinate multiple activities and adapt to unexpected requests
- Some experience in large-scale educational measurement is preferred
- General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred
