Description
The Senior Psychometrician assists other Psychometricians in providing services to the Program Development Department. This individual acts in a support role within the department, helping to provide expertise in the measurement and design of assessments.
The Senior Psychometrician helps to ensure the accuracy and validity of assessments and gathers data that is instrumental to improving students' performance at WGU.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Analyzes data from various types of assessments using a variety of statistical methods.
- Under the guidance of more senior psychometricians, performs statistical analyses required for score reporting and data interpretation.
- Under the guidance of more senior psychometricians, performs data analyses such as item analyses and reliability analyses.
- Under the guidance of more senior psychometricians, creates graphs, charts, tables, and dashboards based on statistical analyses.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills within the team
- Strong time management skills
- Attention to detail in one's own work
- Ability to work well with a team, including following instructions and guidance of more senior team members.
- Ability to produce analyses quickly.
- Strong technical skills, including Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and capacity or experience with SAS, R, or other analytical or statistical packages.
- Experience with Tableau or Power BI for data visualization.
- Experience retrieving and manipulating data from databases using SQL, R, or Python.
Competencies:
- Organizational or Student Impact: Supports program/course initiatives to improve Key Results.
- Problem Solving & Decision Making: Resolves problems that require broad-based consideration of variables at the program/course level.
- Communication & Influence: May communicate and collaborate with fellow faculty members within and across disciplines and practice.
- Leadership & Talent Management: Models best practices within specialty areas, produce measurable results.
Job Qualifications:
- Minimum Qualifications: Doctoral degree in Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, Educational Psychology, or related field (e.g., Industrial/Organization Psychology) with an emphasis on quantitative methods or psychometrics
- One (1) year of experience in testing, research, or closely related fields such as statistics and data analysis
Preferred Qualifications: Experience working in Higher Education
Physical Requirements: Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
This position requires occasional travel of up to 20%, including required attendance at designated company summits (typically one to two per year).