Associate, Scoring Service

Pearson•Sacramento, CA

17d•$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. 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 Sacramento, CA office: Farsi German Hebrew Hindi Hmong Khmer Korean Punjabi Russian Spanish Turkish Vietnamese

Requirements

For Languages other than English examinations, a scorer must be a native speaker of the language with a college/university degree, OR hold a graduate degree in the appropriate language, or hold a Single Subject Teaching Credential in the appropriate language, or be a college or university educator who holds a degree in the language and/or has responsibility for teaching or advising students in that field, or have an authorization to teach the corresponding language in California public schools, or have served as a Single Subject Assessments for Teaching scorer in the appropriate language, or have served as a CTC-approved member of the appropriate CSET language test development and/or standard setting committee.
be a resident of California with eligibility to work in the United States.
Possess basic computer skills (keyboard, mouse)
The ability to sit for extended periods of time
The ability to maintain a confidential work environment

Responsibilities

Evaluate responses to test questions by California 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