Associate, Scoring Service

Pearson

18d • $18 • Remote

About The Position

We are the world’s learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in
70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered
by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized
learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.
Evaluation Systems of Pearson offers dynamic teacher licensing and performance
assessment solutions. Our custom teacher licensure testing programs are 100
percent aligned to state standards. We also provide a wide variety of teacher
licensure testing services such as test development, administration, and
scoring.
We work in a collaborative environment and are passionate about
education.
Scoring offers the opportunity to network with other professionals and stay
abreast of the latest developments in your field. Scorers have a direct impact
on the quality of the next generation of teachers and help to maintain
professional standards. Scorers enjoy the change of pace, the mental challenge
and the opportunity to give back to their educational field.
We have immediate openings for candidates to score the responses from candidates
in the languages below remotely for our Massachusetts and New York offices:
Assyrian
Finnish
Greek
Guyanese Creole
Filipino
Korean
Malayalam
Mongolian
Punjabi
Swahili
Turkish
Vietnamese
Yiddish

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or higher, and
• A current teaching certification in the language you are applying for AND are currently teaching or have taught in schools (public or private) within the last three years (including regular substitute)
• OR are or have been educators from colleges and universities who hold a degree in a content-relevant field and/or have taught or advised in a content-relevant field within the last three years.
• OR is a native or fluent speaker of the language (read, write, and speak) and holds a college degree
• Both active and recently retired practitioners can be eligible to score.
• Basic computer skills (keyboard, mouse)
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time
• Ability to maintain a confidential work environment
• Eligible to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Evaluate responses to test questions by Illinois and New York teacher candidates
• Internalize scoring standards, participate in discussions, and engage with other scorers in consensus scoring activities
• Recognize and discuss various types of bias (e.g., implicit bias, cultural bias, leniency bias, central tendency bias, halo effect) and effect strategies to reduce personal biases in scoring
• Meet quality and productivity requirements established for the scoring program, including passing a qualifying test before scoring

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees