Content Developer, English Language Arts

Job Description: • 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 Apply tot his job Apply To this Job