Prometric
Assessment Development Specialist
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $60K
💻 Learning & Development
🗓️ February 14th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Develop and maintain certification and K12 assessments
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients
- Train and manage external item writers
- Write and edit test items; develop test specifications
- Maintain item bank and assemble test forms
- Salary starts at $60,000 per year
- Bachelor’s degree in related field required
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Google Workspace, and Adobe PDF tools
- Requires occasional travel and weekend work
Assessment Development Specialist Full Description
Assessment Development Specialist
REPORTS TO: Assessment Development Manager |
DEPARTMENT: Test Development |
LOCATION: Remote with some Travel |
JOB OVERVIEW
The Assessment Development Specialist (ADS) is a key member of the Assessment Solutions Department. This position is responsible for developing and maintaining examinations for professional certification and licensing and K12 assessment. The ADS is expected to work collaboratively, both in person and virtually, with other members of the Assessment Development & Psychometrics team and cross functionally with the publishing, PMO, account management, and business development teams in scheduling work and gathering requirements to ensure the production of reliable and valid tests.
Specifically, an Assessment Development Specialist is responsible for multiple aspects of the assessment development life cycle, including but not limited to training and managing external item writers, writing and editing test items, developing test specifications/test objectives according to industry best practices, supporting test form assembly, maintaining the item bank, preparing materials for workshops, and organizing exam content for test production. Salary for this role starts at $60,000 per year.
COMPANY BACKGROUND
Prometric (www.prometric.com) is a trusted test development and delivery provider to more than 300 organizations worldwide. Prometric serves as an industry gatekeeper, ensuring that people legitimately earn the credentials they seek to achieve, and thereby guaranteeing a fair testing experience for all who come through our doors.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage multiple concurrent assignments, each on its own schedule, to ensure on-time delivery
- Ensure that the quality of work products is in accordance with company and industry standards
- Ensure that all tasks are completed according to established schedules, adhering to competing absolute deadlines in a cost-effective manner
- Performing research to support the development of test specifications
- Write and edit test items according to industry best practices
- Facilitate in-person and online workshops with subject matter experts (SMEs)
- Train external subject matter experts (SMEs) in best practices for exam content development
- Manage SMEs during assessment development efforts
- Provide timely, constructive feedback to external item writers with varying levels of experience
- Communicate directly with clients throughout the assessment development cycle
- Blueprint test forms according to specific content and psychometric criteria
- Update and manage items in the item bank to ensure all item data is current
- Facilitate activities related to test construction and the review of composed test forms as well as PIN calls
- Develop planning documents and technical reports for clients
- Represent Assessment Services in client meetings and in internal departmental and cross-functional meetings
- Work closely with assessment services managers, other assessment development specialists, assessment design specialists, and psychometricians.
- Become proficient with Prometric’s internal, proprietary assessment technology; follow established procedures and guidelines, and comply with exam security practices
- Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in education, measurement, or related field
- Three or more years of assessment development experience in the K12 and/or Certification/Licensure industry
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong editing and proofreading skills
- General knowledge of all phases of the assessment development life cycle and measurement concepts a plus
- Experience with group facilitation and conducting workshops as in-person meetings or by web/teleconferences.
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects simultaneously, work under pressure, and meet exacting deadlines
- Ability to meet quality and productivity metrics
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy; proven dependability and high regard for security
- Strong organization and time management skills
- Strong technical and full proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets), and Adobe PDF tools.
- Ability to work occasional weekends and evenings, as well as to travel as needed (potentially up to 20%)
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