Description
The Assessment Strategist guides and supports the strategy, design, development, and maintenance of formative and high-stakes assessments within an assigned portfolio.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures alignment of assessments with best practices in competency-based education model and WGU assessment integrity policies.
- Provides thought leadership and strategic vision for the continuous improvement of student outcomes and overall health and quality of assessments.
- Ensures alignment of assessment traverse with proficiencies, skills and competencies in programs, courses, and non-degree offerings.
- Translates requirements into clearly defined specifications and actions.
- Contributes to models for formative and summative assessments.
- Collaborates with internal and external partners throughout the design, development, and deployment of assessments.
- Collaborates with the technology, design, and development teams to ensure the creation and adoption of flexible, valid, reliable, data-driven assessment tools.
- As required, provides training, consultation, or guidance to team members and partners on assessment models, assessment design and development practices, and data-driven, evidence-based practices in assessment.
- Consults with Program Development and Psychometrics teams on scoring methods, rubric development, and other assessment tools and models.
- Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to explore and determine innovations and improvements to the existing student experience and processes based on data, key performance indicators, current practice, and emerging trends.
- Collaborates with peers across colleges to ensure continuity of process and strategy for assessments.
- Monitors assessment portfolio health across the assessment lifecycle.
- Achieves and reports on critical assessment metrics.
- Provides student-facing responses to student appeals.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- 3 years of relevant professional experience developing high-stakes educational or licensure assessments at the course or program level.
- Experience with contemporary assessment practices and technology (e.g., adaptive assessment, competency-based assessment, psychometrics, technology-enhanced items, prototyping and validating new item types, test designs, etc.).
- Experience facilitating workshops.
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.
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave.