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Content Specialist – Mathematics
Pearson
Iowa City, IA, United States
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Description
At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
Responsibilities:
• Provide assessment expertise in item and test development planning and customer interactions
• Facilitate various client committee meetings (content review, data review, etc.) and provide content expertise during those sessions
• Interpret standards, test blueprints, and item development plans
• Develop item and test specifications documents
• Develop and provide training and feedback to item writers based on established standards, cognitive complexity, and best practices for item development
• Select, assign, and manage subcontracted item and content development
• Develop and review math test items and scoring materials, including selected response, technology enhanced, and constructed response items for various types of assessments
• Work as a member of a team to develop, review, and revise ancillary materials
• Classify test items according to pre-specified content dimensions and ensure the accuracy of item content coding, keying, and item validations
• Provide source references and copyright research, if needed
• Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms
• Work with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups
• Consult with the client as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc.
• Some travel may be required
• Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education, or equivalent education & experience required
• At least 5 years experience as an elementary teacher with focus on mathematics is required
• Some experience in mathematics assessment and/or publishing is preferred
• Some project management experience, including the scheduling of large-scale projects as well as personnel management preferred.
• Must have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work closely with clients
• Must be able to propose problems/solutions to a variety of audiences
• Must have excellent planning, organizational, and problem solving skills, and ability to manage personal tasks within a project and schedule, and to adapt to unforeseen and unexpected requests or changes in priorities
• Must have familiarity with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M)
• Must have strong technology skills including working with Microsoft Excel, Adobe Pro, Microsoft Word; and confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs
• General knowledge of test development including processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments is preferred
• Experience working with technology enhanced items is preferred
• Basic understanding of xml preferred
• General knowledge of computer adaptive testing preferred