Assessment Measurement Specialist

🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $81k - $125k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

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Stride, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

Consulting • Healthcare • Education

Stride, Inc. is an innovative company focused on transforming education through online learning and personalized teaching. It serves a diverse range of learners including K–12 students, adult learners, military families, businesses, and school districts. Stride offers a variety of educational products and services, which include K–12 education solutions, career development programs, and personalized tutoring. With a commitment to social responsibility and inclusion, Stride aims to help learners of all ages achieve their full potential by providing flexible and effective learning opportunities both in online public schools and beyond. Stride is also involved in developing tools for educators and supporting businesses by offering career development options and access to a talented workforce. The company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol LRN.

📋 Description

• Provide psychometric expertise for K12 assessment programs and assessment-related initiatives • Review and compare interim and growth assessment options, including vendor documentation, norms, scoring methodologies, growth measures, research evidence, and administration requirements • Evaluate assessment fit for intended use and provide recommendations for assessment selection and renewal decisions • Review interim assessment results and identify unusual score changes, subgroup patterns, conflicting evidence, or results requiring deeper technical review • Conduct targeted reviews of flagged School Progress Meeting/Continuous Accountability Monitoring Plan results • Determine whether observed patterns reflect meaningful performance differences, measurement variation, administration issues, data-quality concerns, or assessment limitations • Evaluate reliability, validity, score distributions, measurement error, subgroup patterns, and other assessment-quality indicators • Identify data or methodological limitations affecting conclusions and provide interpretation guidance • Evaluate cross-assessment comparability and recommend when results can be compared or triangulated • Develop technical documentation, guidance, and resources for consistent interpretation of assessment results • Analyze relationships between interim and state assessments and evaluate correspondence with state proficiency and growth outcomes • Analyze student assessment growth results and apply established methodologies to evaluate vendor and state growth measures • Partner with Assessment, Accountability, Academics, Research, and Data teams • Communicate technical findings clearly to nontechnical audiences • Monitor developments in educational measurement, assessment validity and reliability, and K12 assessment practices • Recommend appropriate applications to existing assessment practices • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree in Psychometrics, Educational Measurement, Quantitative Psychology, Applied/Educational Statistics, Research Methods, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience • 8 or more years of experience in psychometrics, educational measurement, or assessment-related analytic work, including experience with K12 assessment programs • Expertise applying reliability analysis, measurement error, score distribution analysis, and subgroup performance analysis • Experience analyzing and interpreting growth measures, including student growth percentiles, value-added, or vendor-specific growth models • Experience reviewing vendor technical documentation, norms, scoring methodologies, and reliability/validity evidence • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to translate complex technical/statistical findings for nontechnical audiences • Ability to work independently and exercise sound technical judgment on ambiguous or sensitive data-quality questions • Desired: Ph.D. in a related field • Desired: Experience supporting a school performance/accountability model or similar system • Desired: Familiarity with major K12 interim and formative assessment vendors and technical/psychometric documentation • Desired: Experience evaluating cross-assessment comparability or conducting assessment triangulation studies • Desired: Experience evaluating technical documentation and creating guidance or training resources • Desired: Experience with statistical/psychometric software such as R, SAS, Stata, WINSTEPS, flexMIRT, or similar • Desired: Familiarity with state assessment and accountability policy in a K12 context

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive a bonus • Health benefits • Retirement contributions • Paid time off • Reasonable accommodation available for applicants with disabilities