Job Overview:
Cambium Assessment is a leading provider of online assessments that shape the educational outcomes for millions of students. We are growing our Psychometrician team and we are looking for people who are passionate about innovating and inspiring others to reach their potential.
At Cambium Assessment you will join a team of over 600 professionals who are renowned in their respective elds and who have a natural curiosity and
passion to make a real-world impact on the educational outcomes of students.
As a Psychometrician you will be on a team of more than 30 professionals working in a collaborative and mentoring environment on a solid track to grow your career.
Job Responsibilities:
- The Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment activities.
- Runs technical operational and research projects.
- Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical review for basic and/or segments of complex projects.
- Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients and external boards and panels.
- Accountable for basic and complex statistical design such as variance estimations (weighting), sample design, statistical modeling, and psychometrics.
- Ensures quality control of deliverables.
- Designs, develops and documents technical and operational procedures and statistical guidelines.
- Applies advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (R and Python).
Job Requirements:
- Ph.D. in Statistics, Education Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, or a related field with an emphasis on quantitative research or psychometrics.
- Advanced training in Psychometric research and statistics including item response theory, scaling, and equating, Monte Carlo methods, sample design and computer programming.
- Experience with assessment systems, sampling theory and item response theory.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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