Offer summary
Qualifications:
Ph.D. in related field, Experience in assessment industry.Key responsabilities:
- Lead technical projects and analysis
- Provide guidance to staff
- Ensure quality control of deliverables
Psychometrician
Location: Fully Remote, Must Reside in USA.
Job Overview:
The Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment and analysis activities.
Job Responsibilities:
Pioneers technical operational and research projects.
Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical analysis for basic and/or segments of complex project or work assignments.
Works autonomously on most phases of statistical and/or psychometric analysis and provides guidance to less experienced psychometricians.
Provides guidance and oversight to project staff on technical aspects of their work.
Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients, external boards and panels, professional associations, and other agencies.
Accountable for basic and complex statistical design and analysis decisions 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 for assigned area.
Assists with project development and monitors project budgets.
Applies advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (e.g., R).
Job Requirements:
Ph.D. in Statistics, Education Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, or related field
Prior experience in the summative, certification, or other high stakes assessment industry is required
Increasingly responsible professional experience, including experience with assessment systems, sampling theory and item response theory.
Ability to work effectively as a member of a team in a consulting environment.
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.
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