Cognia · 3 hours ago

Content Specialist I

Portsmouth, NH

Full-time

Remote

Entry Level

$60K/yr - $63K/yr

3+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Contribute to conceptualization, specifications, and creation of innovative content and new assessment products, systems, or services.

Use databases and technology tools to construct, track, and edit items.

Work with project managers to adhere to project schedules and communicate with other functional groups when necessary.

Effectively manage work in concurrent projects on different schedules.

Participate in the development and maintenance of item, test, and project specifications needed to complete a project or contract.

Create and refine a wide variety of item types, including multiple-choice, short-answer, constructed-response, and evidence-based response items, as well as technology-enhanced items, modules, and performance tasks, aligned to standards.

Develop item-specific scoring guides, distractor rationales, or other supplemental item information.

Participate in item writing workshops and other test development-related activities; listen and address concerns of workshop members, clients and/or developers.

Provide feedback for item writers.

Review colleagues’ work and provide feedback.

Follow guidelines for presentation and quality of items, sets, and other work products to ensure uniformity of deliverables.

Prepare item sets and materials for committee meetings.

Facilitate and guide the work of advisory committees.

Interpret and use item statistics in the selection of items; complete item selection and test construction according to blueprint and test specifications.

Consult with scoring chief readers during benchmarking.

Assist with development of assessment guides, brochures, and sample question packets.

Work with Psychometricians to develop items to both content and psychometric parameters including adaptive testing banks.

Ascertain and study current trends within national and professional groups’ content standards and in how children and adults learn.

Participate in personal and professional development.

Perform duties and fulfill responsibilities that may, from time to time, include related or unrelated tasks.

Qualification

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K-12 teaching experienceHistorySocial Studies knowledgeStandardized assessment experienceScope-of-work management

Required

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of three (3) years of K-12 teaching experience, and experience using technology with students required.

Content Specialists are required to have in-depth knowledge in a specific discipline to successfully develop test activities for assessment programs. Education/Degree coupled with teaching experience must be History or Social Studies.

Experience leading/facilitating small group meetings required.