Ascend Learning
Psychometrician
🇺🇸 Remote - Leawood, KS
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Other
🗓️ October 14th, 2025
Python
Edtech.com's Summary
Ascend Learning is hiring a Psychometrician. The role involves assembling, analyzing, and scoring assessment instruments for various educational programs, applying psychological and statistical methods to ensure assessment reliability and validity, and conducting research to support product development and enhance assessment utility.
Highlights
- Conduct job task analyses and standard-setting studies for certification exams.
- Prepare statistical evidence and documentation to support NCCA accreditation.
- Perform psychometric analyses using Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory.
- Communicate complex psychometric concepts to diverse, non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product development and client services.
- PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in educational research, measurement and statistics, or educational psychology required.
- Proficiency in SAS, R, and Python for data analysis and psychometric modeling.
- Minimum of three years’ experience in certification or licensing exam development preferred.
- Experience with operational psychometric analyses and producing technical reports.
- Ability to conduct efficacy research and evaluate assessment fairness and validity.
Psychometrician Full Description
Psychometrician
Job Category: Research & Development
Requisition Number: PSYCH006095
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
As a Psychometrician you will be responsible for assembling, analyzing, and scoring Ascend Learning assessment instruments for 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. You will apply psychological principles and statistical methods to ensure the reliability, validity, and fairness of our assessments in support of product development with the goal of ensuring the validity of scores provided to clients. In addition to operational psychometric work, you will design and conduct efficacy and predictive validity research and other forms of research that bolster the utilization of our assessments and learning products.
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 job task analyses and standard-setting studies to support certification exam development.
- Prepare statistical evidence and technical documentation to support the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) accreditation process.
- Perform psychometric and statistical analyses using Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) and interpret results to inform decision-making.
- Communicate complex psychometric concepts clearly and effectively – both orally and in writing – to diverse audiences, including non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify challenges and develop solutions related to product development and client services (internal and external).
- Analyze current and emerging measurement challenges, conduct research, and propose actionable solutions, and communicate findings in a clear and impactful manner.
- Contribute to research initiatives aimed at enhancing the fairness, validity, and effectiveness of assessments and learning products.
- Document and disseminate research findings through presentations, reports, or publications to support internal and external stakeholders.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- A PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in educational research, measurement and statistics, or educational psychology is required. Candidates must have completed graduate-level coursework in measurement theory, test equating, and advanced statistical modeling (e.g., multivariate modeling, structural equation modeling).
- A minimum of three years of relevant work experience is required, with a preference for experience in certification or licensing exam development.
- Experience conducting job task analyses to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for competent performance in a profession.
- Ability to lead or support standard-setting studies, including coordination with subject matter experts to establish defensible passing scores.
- Familiarity with the NCCA accreditation process, including psychometric requirements and documentation standards.
- Demonstrated proficiency in SAS, R, and Python for data manipulation, statistical analysis, and psychometric modeling.
- Experience conducting operational psychometric analyses (e.g., Rasch analysis, equating, item analysis, DIF) and producing technical documentation such as statistical summary reports, policy and procedure manuals, professional manuscripts, and presentations).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex, technical, and quantitative information to non-technical audiences.
- Excellent time management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines consistently, and maintain high attention to detail.
- Basic proficiency in database management, including working with relational tables, developing data integrity protocols, and creating visualizations such as charts and graphics.
- Experience in planning and facilitating exam-related meetings and workshops (e.g., job/practice analysis, standard-setting, item development) preferred.
- Experience evaluating the efficacy of learning products and assessments, including analysis of student usage and performance across different subgroups preferred.
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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