Pearson
Assessment Specialist - English Language Arts
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $65K - $75K
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ June 23rd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Develop and review multiple types of ELA test items across grade levels for large-scale assessments
- Create item specifications, development plans, and test blueprints
- Manage and train item writers and educators to develop standards-based content
- Facilitate customer meetings and provide content expertise
- Collaborate with test development managers, psychometricians, and other Pearson teams
- Bachelor's degree in education, English, or equivalent experience required
- Preferred five years teaching experience in elementary or secondary ELA
- Experience with large-scale educational measurement is preferred
- Proficiency with basic software tools and ability to work with new technologies
- Salary range: $65,000 - $75,000 with eligibility for annual incentive program
Assessment Specialist - English Language Arts Full Description
Assessment Specialist - English Language Arts
- Job: Learning Subject Matter Experts
- Schedule: FULL_TIME
- Req ID: 20197
As an Assessment Specialist within the Asset Creation team, you will work as both an ELA content and assessment expert to develop K-12 assessments for our state and district clients. Our team develops standards-based assessments for students across the United States. We collaborate with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to develop assessments of learning that are accessible to all students. We are looking for flexible and creative content experts to join our team.
- Develop and review ELA test items, passages, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, and performance-based tasks, across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments
- Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, and other ancillary documents
- Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices
- Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide content assessment expertise
- Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms
- Consult with the customer as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc.
- Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Some travel required
Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the Colorado, California, Washington State, New York State and New York City laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:
- Bachelor's degree in education, English, or equivalent experience required
- Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of ELA area preferred
- Professional knowledge of content-specific area and educational trends required
- Some experience in large-scale educational measurement preferred
- General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills
- Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges with a variety of audiences
- Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events
- Skill in basic software tools and technology and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs
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