ETS (Educational Testing Service), is a global non-profit organization, headquartered in Princeton, NJ. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development.
We are currently seeking an Assessment Specialist in Physics for these responsibilities:
- Develop Physics tests.
- Write, review, and revise test questions.
- Recruit, train, mentor, and manage outside item writers.
- Devise strategies for improving outside item writer results, develop item writer training materials: plan and lead item writer training meetings, & monitor work with outside item writers.
- Edit and review questions acquired from teacher consultants: gather and resolve feedback from multiple sources on items: evaluate question acceptability after testing.
- Assist client committees, including organizing meetings, recommending committee members, and explaining and summarizing statistical analysis results.
- Participate in physics constructed-response scoring activities.
- Plan, manage, and direct test development activities.
- Assist with reliability, validity or comparability studies.
- Review and revise program publications and interpretive test preparation materials: participate in teacher training activities.
- Assist in design and development of new assessments and innovative products and services. Proactively work toward shorter cycle time, reduced costs, greater customer satisfaction and quality maintenance.
Requires Master's degree in Secondary Science Education or Physics and three years of professional experience including experience teaching physics at the high school or college level. Experience in test development, educational measurement, or applied statistics a plus.
With more than 3,400 global employees worldwide, ETS develops, administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually in more than 180 countries, at 9,000+ locations worldwide. In addition to assessments, we conduct educational research, analysis and policy studies and develop a variety of customized services and products for teacher certification, English language learning and elementary, secondary and postsecondary education. Equal Opportunity Employer
