Cambium Assessment is a leading provider of online assessments that shape the educational outcomes for millions of students. We are growing our Psychometrician team, and we are looking for people who are passionate about innovating and inspiring others to reach their potential.
Location: Remote, reside in the USA
Job Overview:
At Cambium Assessment you will join a team of over 600 professionals who are renowned in their respective fields 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 environment on a solid track to grow your career.
Job Responsibilities:
Heads technical operational and research projects.
Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical review for basic and/or segments of complex project or work assignments.
Works autonomously on most phases of statistical and/or psychometric examination and provides guidance to less experienced psychometricians.
Provides guidance and oversight to project staff on technical aspects of their work.
Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients, external boards and panels, professional associations, and other agencies.
Accountable for basic and complex statistical design and analysis decisions 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 for assigned area.
Applies advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (e.g., R and Python.)
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.
At least 4 years of increasingly accountable professional experience, including experience with assessment systems, item response theory, and adaptive testing.
Ability to work effectively as a member of a team in a consulting environment.
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.
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