We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced education professionals with strong expertise in educational materials, visual document interpretation, assessment design, and structured evaluation.
This role supports a research project focused on complex visual and document-based tasks within the education domain. Selected experts will create realistic, evidence-grounded assignments, establish clear reference answers, and develop objective scoring criteria for evaluating the quality and accuracy of responses.
Key Responsibilities
Education Task Design
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Create complex, realistic tasks grounded in educational materials and professional education workflows
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Develop assignments requiring careful interpretation of documents, charts, tables, diagrams, presentations, and other visual resources
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Design tasks that require meaningful subject-matter judgement rather than simple information retrieval
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Ensure each task has a clear and objectively verifiable expected output
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Develop scenarios appropriate to authentic educational contexts
Visual Document Interpretation
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Analyse educational documents containing text, graphics, tables, diagrams, and structured information
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Create questions requiring information to be synthesised across multiple visual or textual elements
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Identify relevant details, relationships, and contextual information within source materials
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Develop tasks that test accurate interpretation of complex educational content
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Ensure conclusions remain grounded in the supplied materials
Assessment & Instruction-Following
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Create tasks involving multi-step instructions and clearly defined deliverables
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Evaluate whether responses fully satisfy stated requirements
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Identify missing information, instruction-following errors, and unsupported conclusions
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Develop assessment criteria that distinguish complete responses from partially correct ones
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Apply consistent standards across different task types
Reference Answer Development
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Produce authoritative reference outputs for assigned tasks
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Establish clear ground truth based on provided educational materials
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Verify that reference answers are accurate, complete, and reproducible
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Document the reasoning and evidence supporting expected outcomes
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Resolve ambiguity before tasks progress to evaluation
Rubric & Quality Development
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Write objective rubrics defining the requirements for successful responses
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Identify essential elements that must be present in a correct answer
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Distinguish substantive errors from minor presentation differences
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Refine tasks and rubrics for clarity, difficulty, and evaluation reliability
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Maintain consistent quality standards across the project
Ideal Profile
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Professional or academic background in Education, Curriculum, Instructional Design, Educational Assessment, or a closely related field
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Strong ability to interpret educational documents and visually structured information
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Experience working with instructional materials, assessments, curricula, or educational content
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Strong analytical judgement and attention to detail
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Ability to create clearly defined tasks with objective expected outcomes
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Excellent written English and ability to explain reasoning precisely
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Comfortable working independently within structured project guidelines
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Experience developing assessments, rubrics, instructional materials, or educational evaluation criteria is advantageous
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Based in the United States or Canada
Engagement Details
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Part-time independent contractor engagement
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Fully remote
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Expected commitment of approximately 15–20 hours per week
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Flexible scheduling based on project requirements
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Compensation: Up to $50/hour
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Work focuses on education task authoring, reference-answer development, and evaluation criteria
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Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance
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Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party
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H1-B and STEM OPT support is unavailable for this engagement
About the Platform
This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.
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