What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychometrician position at Cambium Assessment?
Job Overview
At Cambium Assessment you will join a team of over 600 professionals who are renowned in their respective fields and who have a natural curiosity and passion to make a real-world impact on the educational outcomes of students. As a Psychometrician you will be on a team of more than 30 professionals working in a collaborative and mentoring environment on a solid track to grow your career.
Job Responsibilities
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
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.
At Cambium Assessment you will join a team of over 600 professionals who are renowned in their respective fields and who have a natural curiosity and passion to make a real-world impact on the educational outcomes of students. As a Psychometrician you will be on a team of more than 30 professionals working in a collaborative and mentoring environment on a solid track to grow your career.
Job Responsibilities
- The Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment activities.
- Runs technical operational and research projects
- Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical review for basic and/or segments of complex projects.
- Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients and external boards and panels.
- Accountable for basic and complex statistical design 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.
- Applies advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (e.g., R).
- Ph.D. in Statistics, Education Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, or related field with an emphasis on quantitative research or psychometrics.
- Advanced training in psychometric research and statistics including item response theory, scaling and equating, Monte Carlo methods, sample design and computer programming.
- Experience with assessment systems, sampling theory and item response theory.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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
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.