Assessment Strategist

Assessment Strategist

Requirements

• Master’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.

Responsibilities

• Ensures alignment of assessments with best practices in our 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.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.