Content Specialist II, ELA

Cognia, Inc. • Middletown Township, NJ

2d • Remote

About The Position

Education is ever-evolving. And so are we. We seek passionate people from diverse backgrounds who are committed to helping improve the work of schools as a trusted partner in advancing learning. By joining the Cognia team, you will be immersed in a community of energetic and resourceful people dedicated to a common vision to impact and inspire education providers to advance and enable pathways of success for all learners. At Cognia we have developed a holistic approach to education that empowers schools to create real outcomes and optimize learning for students of all backgrounds. Serving over 40,000 institutions from early learning through high school in more than 100 countries and territories, Cognia brings universally recognized perspective to advancing teaching and learning. When you join Cognia, you join a team of experts passionate about our mission and embracing our core values in everything we do.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five (5) years of experience in Education, including two (2) to three (3) years of experience in educational assessment, and proven experience demonstrating test development competencies required
• In-depth knowledge in a specific discipline to successfully develop test activities for assessment programs.
• Education/Degree coupled with teaching experience must be in the following discipline: English/Language Arts (degree strongly preferred)
• Communication: A process by which information is effectively exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior
• Technical Expertise: Job-related specialized knowledge and the proficient use of technology-based tools
• Individual Accountability: Takes full responsibility for own behavior and professional development
• Scope-of-Work Management: The planning, organization and use of available resources in order to move specific tasks, events or job responsibilities toward completion
• Leadership: A process of workplace influence or control in which a person enlists the participation of others and the requisite resources in the creation and accomplishment of specific objectives and goals

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Education or English/Language Arts is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to conceptualization, specifications, and creation of innovative content and new assessment products, systems, or services.
• Use databases and technology tools to construct, track, and edit items.
• Work with project managers to coordinate schedules and communicate project details with other functional groups such as Graphics, Publications, etc.
• Simultaneously work in different schedule modes (e.g., fast start-up and turnaround projects with more stable, long-term contracts).
• Develop a variety of assessment item types according to standards frameworks and other requirements.
• Develop and refine item specification documents, test or product blueprints, and supplementary materials, as well as facilitate advisory committee meetings.
• Develop and maintain item, test, and project specifications needed to complete a project or contract.
• Create and refine a wide variety of items types, including multiple-choice, short-answer, constructed-response, and evidence-based response items, as well as technology-enhanced items, modules, and performance tasks, aligned to standards.
• Develop item-specific scoring guides, distractor rationales, or other supplemental item information.
• Conduct training workshops in item writing and other test development related tasks for a variety of audiences; listen to and address concerns of workshop members, clients and/or developers.
• Train and provide feedback for item writers.
• Review colleagues’ work and provide feedback.
• Provide coordination and uniformity for presentation and quality of items, sets, and other work products.
• Prepare item sets and materials for committee meetings and facilitate and guide the work of advisory committees.
• Create and analyze test blueprints.
• Interpret and use item statistics in the selection of items; complete item selection and test construction according to blueprint and test specifications.
• Consult with scoring chief readers during benchmarking.
• Assist with development of assessment guides, brochures, and sample question packets.
• Work with Psychometricians to develop items to both content and psychometric parameters including adaptive testing banks.
• Ascertain and study current trends within national and professional groups’ content standards and in how children and adults learn.
• Participate in personal and professional development.
• Perform duties and fulfill responsibilities that may, from time to time, include related or unrelated tasks.

Benefits

• generous paid time off and holiday breaks
• comprehensive insurance plans
• a 12.5% retirement savings contribution which is immediately vested, all effective on your date of hire

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level