Curriculum Associates is seeking an established psychometrician with experience leading projects to join our growing Psychometrics team as a Managing Senior Psychometrician. In this role you will use your expertise to design, oversee, lead, and ensure completion of psychometric efforts for a suite of formative and interim assessment products that inform instruction. Additionally, you will supervise and mentor a small team consisting of psychometricians and statistical analysts.

At CA, you will lead psychometric efforts that aim to improve and maintain our current and next generation suite of i-Ready assessments including the i-Ready Diagnostic assessments in mathematics and reading, Assessment of Spanish Reading, progress monitoring assessments, and early literacy assessments. You will work closely with a set of field leading experts, consultants, and TAC members. Most importantly, you will support products that are designed to improve student outcomes in reading and mathematics, especially for students who are historically underserved.

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  A cover letter is required for consideration.

This opportunity is right for you if:

• You can independently lead operational psychometric and research efforts and communicate the results clearly and succinctly to non-technical audiences

• You are ready to take the next step and manage people in addition to managing psychometric projects

• You love managing and/or mentoring people but also want to stay involved in operational psychometric work

• You think assessment and instruction should be designed to function as a coherent system

• You want to work with formative and interim assessments to support students and teachers making data-based decisions

• You are passionate about K–12 education and want to make a positive impact for students and teachers

• You are passionate about quality and ensuring the accuracy of data, analyses, and findings of research projects

The impact you’ll have:

• You will work on psychometric efforts with a scope large enough to positively impact millions of students’ lives

• You will use your operational psychometric experience to serve as a mentor for a team of psychometricians and statistical analysts that conduct operational and innovative psychometric analyses

• You will serve an oversight and leadership role on key efforts for the company

• You will present research findings to diverse audiences at internal stakeholder meetings, technical advisory committee meetings, and professional conferences

We’re looking for someone who has:

• A Ph.D. in Educational Measurement, Psychometrics, Educational Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, or related field

• Experience leading project teams that develop and execute psychometric analyses

• Experience designing and conducting empirical research studies

• A strong foundation in item response theory (IRT) and classical test theory (CTT) methods

• Someone with a range of psychometric experiences (some possible examples are developing new assessments, field testing, item calibration, scaling, setting standards, reliability, and validity analyses)

• Demonstrated proficiency in SAS and/or R

We’d also love to see, though not required:

• Direct supervisory experience with one or more direct reports inclusive of administrative tasks such as managing time off requests and conducting performance reviews

• Demonstrated experience working with K–12 digital assessment and learning

• Detailed knowledge of key state and national policies on educational assessment

• A strong foundation in computer adaptive testing (CAT)

Travel: Less than 10% of total time including attendance at team meetings, TAC meetings, planning meetings, and conferences.