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Learning Experience Designer, K-8 Science
Posted 12 days agoViewed
💎 Seniority level: Junior, 2+ years
💸 Salary: 57450.0 - 66050.0 USD per year
🔍 Industry: Education
🏢 Company: Newsela👥 251-500💰 $100,000,000 Series D about 4 years agoEducationEdTechE-Learning
⏳ Experience: 2+ years
Requirements:
- Degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, or a Science-related field.
- 2+ years of experience in educational assessment item writing or curriculum development.
- Familiarity with NGSS.
- Experience with creating, analyzing, and revising science assessment items
- Strong understanding of science content and pedagogy.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, and high-quality assessment items.
- Strong analytical skills to assess item quality and effectiveness.
- Familiarity with assessment development tools and platforms (e.g., item banks, learning management systems).
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously with tight deadlines.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with diverse teams.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and review high-quality, reliable, and valid assessment items for K-8 science in a variety of formats
- Write, edit and review lessons and assessment items that accurately assess student understanding and critical thinking in science and STEM.
- Create and review activities and lessons using Newsela tooling that support practice and learning of STEM concepts.
- Continuously review and update items, activities and lessons to ensure strict alignment with both state and national standards, including NGSS.
- Collaborate with other subject matter experts and educational stakeholders to ensure alignment with the curriculum and consistency across all items, lessons and activities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., curriculum developers, researchers and project managers) to design and validate assessments and improve tooling.
- Conduct item analyses to identify the effectiveness of assessment items, lessons and activities ensuring that all are valid and reliable.
- Revise and refine items based on feedback from pilot testing, field trials, and statistical analysis.
- Stay up-to-date on current trends in K-8 science education, assessment practices, and changes in state or national standards.
- Work closely with other learning experience designers, teachers, and content writers to ensure assessments are user-friendly and pedagogically sound.
- Provide support in training or advising on the implementation and use of assessments.
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