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Psychometrician

72% Flex

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Ph.D. in Statistics, Education Measurement or related field with focus on quantitative research or psychometrics, Advanced training in psychometric research and statistics.

Key responsabilities:

Provide oversight of educational assessment activities
Run technical and research projects
Ensure quality control of deliverables
Design statistical guidelines and operational procedures

Cambium Learning Group E-learning SME Unknown

501 - 1000 Employees

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Job description

Your missions

Job Overview

At Cambium Assessment you will join a team of over 600 professionals who are renowned in their respective ﬁelds and who have a natural curiosity and passion to make a real-world impact on the educational outcomes of students. As a Psychometrician you will be on a team of more than 30 professionals working in a collaborative and mentoring environment on a solid track to grow your career.

Job Responsibilities:

The Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment activities.

Runs technical operational and research projects

Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical review for basic and/or segments of complex projects.

Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients and external boards and panels.

Accountable for basic and complex statistical design such as variance estimations (weighting), sample design, statistical modeling, and psychometrics.

Ensures quality control of deliverables.

Designs, develops and documents technical and operational procedures and statistical guidelines.

Applies advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (e.g., SAS).

Job Requirements:

Ph.D. in Statistics, Education Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, or related field with an emphasis on quantitative research or psychometrics.

Advanced training in psychometric research and statistics including item response theory, scaling and equating, Monte Carlo methods, sample design and computer programming.

Experience with assessment systems, sampling theory and item response theory.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Why Work With Us?

When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.

Our ground breaking work includes:

Advanced computer-adaptive algorithms
Mobile support of user interfaces
Learning management systems with social media features
Universally accessible user interfaces
Machine scorable items

In the 2021–2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers, while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.