Senior Assessment Designer (Contract)

- Work independently and collaboratively with the assessment design team to create, review, edit, and/or revise tests & items based on state standards and grade-level appropriateness to meet internal and external deadlines.

- Execute against blueprints to develop well-rounded assessments to meet customer needs.

- Strong professional assessment writing and/or editing experience - particularly experience authoring tech-enhanced items directly in an assessment management system

- Strong understanding of what makes well-composed and balanced assessment items and forms.

- Ability to write assessment items for students in K-12 grades with a strong understanding of Depth of Knowledge, rigor, differentiation, text complexity, and readability

- Deep knowledge of academic standards and how to design strongly-aligned assessments

- Ability to provide constructive feedback regarding assessment items or design

- Subject-matter expertise in ELA, math, science, or social studies

- Experience in education; former teaching experience is a plus but is not required

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