Psychometrician

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $102k / year

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Center for Applied Linguistics

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1959

📚 Education

Education

Center for Applied Linguistics is a research and educational organization focused on improving language and literacy education. The Center engages in projects that enhance language learning across various demographics, including adult literacy, dual-language education, multilingual education, and more. It offers a variety of services, such as research, online courses, professional development, and resources for educators and learners alike. The organization is particularly noted for its work in multilingual education, advocating for effective teaching strategies, testing and assessment, and promoting culturally sustaining approaches to language education. CAL actively works towards addressing educator shortages and supports multilingual paraeducators. Additionally, it provides webinars and video content to support language education and assessment.

📋 Description

• Design and conduct psychometric analyses for the WIDA ACCESS program • Plan, conduct, document, and present psychometric and statistical analyses using classical test theory and the Rasch model • Analyze item quality, rater performance, DIF, reliability and classification consistency, standard setting, equating, scoring, and reporting • Investigate and evaluate new approaches to psychometric analyses in language testing • Establish and monitor quality control procedures from data cleaning through final technical reports • Provide quantitative guidance to professional researchers on proposal design and analytical approaches • Participate in writing quantitatively oriented portions of proposals • Support outreach and collaboration with external partners, academia, education and language innovators, and the public • Coordinate external quantitative resources on behalf of the organization • Write narrative accompanying psychometric analyses for technical reports and documentation • Create replicable procedures for routine psychometric work • Instruct junior team members in statistical software

🎯 Requirements

• Ph.D. in Educational Measurement, Psychometrics, or related field • Minimum of five years of demonstrated operational experience designing and conducting statistical and psychometric analyses for high-stakes testing programs • Strong experience applying the Rasch model to varied psychometric issues • Experience analyzing performance and polytomously scored tasks • Demonstrated proficiency programming in R or Python • Proficiency using SPSS, Winsteps, Facets, and other statistical and psychometric software • Experience in a psychometric program in a K-12 U.S. educational context, preferably language testing • Experience communicating effectively in English with clients and internal and external stakeholders in high-stakes contexts • Experience producing timely, error-free deliverables as part of a team • Ability to create and apply quality control procedures for databases, statistical and psychometric analyses, quantitative research, and technical reports • Ability to program, document procedures, and instruct junior team members in R, Python, SPSS, Winsteps, Stata, and SAS • Ability to create replicable procedures for routine psychometric work • Ability to write narrative accompanying psychometric analyses for technical reports and documentation • Ability to work with a diverse, multidisciplinary team of researchers and language testers • Strong experience with computerized adaptive assessments • Experience conducting standard-setting and/or alignment studies • Ability to travel occasionally, 1–3 times per year • Position is not open to candidates residing in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, or U.S. Territories

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits eligible • Remote work up to 100% • Preferred combination of in-person work at the D.C. office in a hoteling capacity or remote work • Occasional travel (1–3 times per year)