Senior Psychometrician

About This Role

This senior role provides technical oversight for educational assessment activities, focusing on early childhood and early literacy. It suits a psychometrician who is passionate about innovation and inspiring others to reach their full potential.

Responsibilities

• Head technical operational and research projects dealing with early childhood and early literacy assessments
• Plan, coordinate, and perform statistical review for basic and complex projects
• Provide guidance and oversight to project staff on technical aspects of their work
• Work autonomously on most phases of statistical and/or psychometric examination and provide guidance to less experienced psychometricians
• Represent the organization's position on technical issues to clients, and external boards and panels
• Account for statistical design such as Variance Estimations (weighting), Sample Design, Statistical Modeling, and Psychometrics
• Ensure quality control of deliverables
• Design, develop and document technical and operational procedures and statistical guidelines
• Apply advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (e.g., R)

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, Computer Adaptive Testing, Sample Design and Longitudinal Data Analysis
• At least 4 years of professional experience, including with assessment systems, Sampling Theory and Item Response Theory
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team in a consulting environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

About the Company

Cambium Learning Group is an award-winning educational technology solutions leader dedicated to helping all students reach their potential through individualized and differentiated instruction. It delivers SaaS resources and instructional products through Learning A-Z, ExploreLearning, Voyager Sopris Learning, and VKidz Learning.