Ascend Learning
Associate Psychometrician
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Leawood, KS
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ December 7th, 2025
Psychometrics
Edtech.com's Summary
Ascend Learning is hiring an Associate Psychometrician to conduct psychometric analyses and support the development of assessment-based products for various educational programs. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to ensure score validity and effectively communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Highlights
- Conduct psychometric analyses using classical test theory, item response theory, equating, and standard setting methods.
- Develop content and software products related to nursing, allied health, emergency services, and fitness education programs.
- Communicate technical psychometric concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve product development and client service issues.
- Use statistical analysis software such as SAS, R, LOGIST, and WINSTEPS.
- Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word is required.
- Requires a completed or near-completed PhD in educational research, measurement and statistics, or educational psychology with relevant coursework in measurement theory.
- Experience with professional certification organizations or the healthcare industry is preferred.
- Benefits include flexible paid time off, competitive insurance plans, 401(k) matching, parental leave, wellness resources, and tuition reimbursement.
- Offers flexibility for remote work within the U.S. with occasional travel.
Associate Psychometrician Full Description
Associate Psychometrician
Job Category: Research & Development
Requisition Number: ASSOC006139
Full-Time
Leawood, KS 66211, USA
Job Details
Description
We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture
Ascend Learning is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning.
Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers.
We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.
Ascend Learning leads the way in innovation and solution creation to improve outcomes and deliver results for students, educators, and healthcare workers in the ever-changing field of healthcare. We offer advanced resources that drive nursing success, empower front-line certified allied health workers, help physicians pass boards and stay current, and provide education management tools for medical education programs.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
The associate psychometrician helps develop content, software products, tools and other assessment-based products including, but not limited to nursing, allied health, emergency services, fitness and many other student educational programs that educate, remediate and certify students and professionals and other high-growth professions. Under supervision, the role conducts psychometric analyses in support of product development with the goal of ensuring the validity of scores provided to clients.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK
This position offers flexibility of remote work within the United States. Occasional travel will be required.
HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME
- Conduct psychometric analyses using classical test theory, item response theory, equating, and standard setting methods to support product development.
- Communicate technical psychometric concepts orally and in writing to all customer bases, including non-technical audiences.
- Work with cross-functional teams to problem-solve and find solutions for product development and for client (internal and external) service issues.
- With supervision, analyze, research, and propose solutions to current and future measurement problems, and communicate those solutions effectively.
- Complete other tasks as assigned.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Completed (or near completion) PhD or a doctoral degree in educational research, measurement and statistics, or educational psychology with graduate level course work in measurement theory, classical test theory, item response theory, test equating, and advanced statistical modeling (eg, multivariate modeling, factor analysis, multi-level modeling, structural equation modeling).
- Ability to conduct psychometric analyses in support of testing programs.
- Ability to analyze and research applied measurement problems, and, to propose solutions to those problems, under supervision.
- Understanding of concepts central to psychometrics: classical test theory, equating, and item response theory, and standard setting.
- Experience using statistical analysis software (e.g., SAS, R, LOGIST, WINSTEPS) is required.
- Experience with, Excel, Power Point, and Word is required
- Good presentation, organizational, problem-solving, communication and customer service skills with attention to details and deadlines.
- Ability to work cooperatively with cross - functional teams.
- Ability to communicate technical psychometric concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to contribute to manuscripts to publish in peer review journals under supervision.
- Experience working with a professional certification organization or within the health care industry is desirable.
BENEFITS
- Flexible and generous paid time off
- Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- 401(k) employer matching program
- Parental leave
- Wellness resources
- Charitable matching program
- Hybrid work
- On-site workout facilities (Leawood, Gilbert, Burlington)
- Community outreach groups
- Tuition reimbursement
Fostering A Sense of Belonging
We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued and be their authentic selves. Our culture is firmly rooted in the belief that by embracing our differences and drawing on diverse perspectives, we are a stronger, more innovative, and more successful organization where employees experience a sense of belonging.
About Ascend Learning
As a tech-enabled services company, Ascend Learning is a national leader in developing and delivering data-driven online educational content, software, assessments, analytics, and simulations serving institutions, students and employers across healthcare, fitness and wellness, public and workplace safety, skilled trades, insurance, financial services, cybersecurity, and higher education. We're committed to accelerating the learning pathways that can move people into careers where they have the knowledge and skills to have an impact and help change lives in the communities they serve. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America's 2023 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity.
Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
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