Description
Provides leadership for the design, evaluation, and continuous improvement of assessments to ensure validity, reliability, fairness, and alignment with institutional goals.
This role leads a team of assessment strategists and psychometricians, driving the development and implementation of innovative assessment strategies that support student success and academic program integrity.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and supervise a team of assessment strategists and psychometricians, including hiring, onboarding, training, development, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
- Establish the vision, strategy, and goals for assessment quality, innovation, and psychometric rigor across academic programs.
- Ensure assessments are valid, reliable, fair, and aligned with competency frameworks, accreditation standards, and institutional goals.
- Oversee the application of psychometric methods, including test design, calibration, equating, scaling, and statistical analysis of assessment data.
- Partner with academic and institutional leaders to define program-level and institution-wide success metrics for assessment.
- Ensure assessment strategies, instruments, and policies comply with accreditation, regulatory, and professional standards.
- Collaborate with curriculum, product, and faculty teams to align assessment strategies with program learning outcomes.
- Use assessment data and psychometric evidence to identify trends, evaluate program effectiveness, and recommend improvements.
- Provide reports, presentations, and recommendations to leadership based on assessment performance, validity studies, quality audits, and other relevant analyses.
- Monitor project timelines, resources, and budgets to ensure deliverables are completed on time and within scope.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by leveraging research, AI, and emerging technologies to advance assessment practices.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Psychometrics, Educational Measurement, Educational Psychology, Assessment, or a related field.
- Five (5) years of experience in assessment development, psychometrics, educational measurement, learning science, learning design, or instructional design, including at least two (2) years in a supervisory or team leadership role.
- Proven track record managing both the strategic and technical aspects of assessment design, validation, and evaluation.
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience working within competency-based, online, or large-scale assessment environments.
- Demonstrated experience implementing innovative assessment models and technologies.
- Demonstrated success stabilizing, structuring, and advancing complex or ambiguous initiatives.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- Health savings account and flexible spending account
- Basic and voluntary life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- Legal and identity theft coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Wellbeing program
- Discounted WGU tuition
- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave