Specialist, Content Developer (English Language Arts)

As a Specialist, Content Developer within the English Language Arts Content Development team, you will work as both a content and assessment expert to develop K-12 assessments for our state and district clients. Our team develops standards-based assessments for students across the United States. We collaborate with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to develop assessments of learning that are accessible to all students. We are looking for flexible and creative content experts to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and review content-specific test items, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, performance-based tasks, and simulations across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments

• Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, and other ancillary documents

• Leverage AI-powered tools to support the development, review, and enhancement of assessment content, ensuring outputs meet quality and accessibility standards

• Collaborate with team members to integrate AI-generated assets in assessment workflows, providing feedback using content and educational expertise

• Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices

• Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide content assessment expertise

• Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms

• Consult with the customer as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc.

• Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups

• Stay current with emerging technologies relevant to educational content creation and assessment, including AI

• Perform other duties as assigned

• Some travel required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in education, content-specific area, or equivalent experience required

• Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of content-specific area preferred