What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Psychometrician position at Cambium Assessment?
Job Overview
The Senior Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment activities.
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.
The Senior Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment activities.
Job Responsibilities
- Heads technical operational and research projects
- Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical review for basic and complex projects.
- Provides guidance and oversight to project staff on technical aspects of their work.
- Works autonomously on most phases of statistical and/or psychometric examination and provides guidance to less experienced psychometricians.
- Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients, and external boards and panels.
- Accountable for 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, Computer Adaptive Testing, Sample Design and and Longitudinal Data Analysis.
- At least 4 years of professional experience, including with assessment systems, Sampling Theory and Item Response Theory.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team in a consulting environment
- 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.