Psychometrician Job at Cambium Learning Group in Dallas, TX
Position Description
Job Overview
At Cambium Assessment you will join a team of over600 professionalswho are renowned in their respective elds and who have a natural curiosity and passion to make a real-world impact on the educational outcomes of students. As a Psychometrician you will be on a team of more than 30 professionals working in a collaborative and mentoring environmenton a solid track to grow your career.
Job Responsibilities:
- The Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment activities.
- Runs technical operational and research projects
- Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical review for basic and/or segments of complex projects.
- Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients and external boards and panels.
- Accountable for basic and complex 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).
Job Requirements:
- 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, Monte Carlo methods, sample design and computer programming.
- Experience with assessment systems, sampling theory and item response theory.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Why Work With Us?
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
In the 2021-2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers, while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com
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.