Senior Director Assessment Manager Life Sciences - REQ001662_35-3175

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***/jobs/3115090 About the Team
The Advanced Placement (AP) Curriculum and Assessment Team (60+ staff)supports College Board in serving more than seven million students ayear as they prepare for a successful transition to college throughprograms and services in college readiness and college success -speci?cally through the AP Program.
AP is a rigorous academic programbuilt on the commitment, passion, and hard work of students andeducators from secondary schools and higher education.
AP provideswilling and academically prepared high school students with theopportunity to study and learn at the college level.
With more than 40+courses in a wide variety of subject areas, we are committed topromoting innovation, equity, and excellence for generations ofstudents.
AP\'s Assessment Leads and Course Leads ensure that coursecurricula are aligned to higher education expectations and reflect thestate of the art in the discipline, contribute to instructionalresources and tools for teachers, and develop assessments that allowstudents in these courses to demonstrate their mastery of course contentand skills.
The STEM department, which includes Biology, Chemistry,Calculus (AB and BC), Computer Science A, Computer Science Principles,Environmental Science, Physics (Physics 1, Physics 2, Physics C:
Electricity and Magnetism, Physics C:
Mechanics), Precalculus,Psychology, and Statistics is currently made up of 17 people supporting15 courses in the AP portfolio.
About the Opportunity
As the Senior Director, AP Life Sciences Assessment Manager, you willmanage a small team of Assessment Leads in AP Life Sciences, includingAP Biology and AP Environmental Science, guiding their assessment workand deliverables, as well as managing their training and development inassessment best practices.
The Senior Director, AP Life SciencesAssessment Manager serves as the primary point of contact in AP for allassessment content for AP Life Sciences collaborating closely with theAP STEM Department Heads, Senior Director, AP Physical SciencesAssessment Manager, and Senior Director, AP STEM Assessment Manager.
TheSenior Director, AP Life Sciences Assessment Manager may provideassessment development support in other related subject areas.
TheSenior Director, AP Life Sciences Assessment Manager is responsible forall item development and management from authoring to administration;training and collaborating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), typicallycollege professors and secondary school teachers.
The Senior Director,AP Life Sciences Assessment Manager trains SMEs on assessmentdevelopment protocols, translates between academics and technicalexperts (psychometricians), and collaborates to develop formativeassessment materials and resources to support AP Life Sciences teachersworldwide.
In this role, you will:

Assessment Development and Scoring (34%)
Be responsible for overseeing the development and management of allassessment content through iterative review stages with multipleinternal and external stakeholders, including the Assessment Leadsand Course Leads of AP Life Sciences courses, Assessment Productionteam, Test Development Committees, and the Chief Readers
Be responsible for overseeing the authoring/revising of assessmentcontent and training educator constituents to author assessmentcontent, including selection of appropriate stimulus material, andapplying best assessment practicesfor AP Life Sciences.
Be responsible for overseeing the development of all assessmentforms for AP Life Sciences, ensuring the AP Exam development alignswith approved curricula and test specifications
Be responsible for overseeing multiple face-to-face meetings andvirtual meetings (during work week, even ngs, or weekends) annuallywith each of the committees within the Senior Director\'sstewardship as well as other committee meetings in the life sciencediscipline, as needed
Be responsible for overseeing the successful scoring of student APExams at the annual scoring event in person and online-the APReading-and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacherand student usefor AP Life Sciences
Assessment Quality and Process (33%)
Contribute to current research and best practices related toassessment; participate in regular discussions with other APCurriculum & Assessment members on the current assessment standardsand practices to build a set of common, shared beliefs about AP\'sassessment directions within the larger educational and assessmentcommunity
Contribute to processes for efficient, high-quality assessmentdevelopment
Refine and improve question task models as well as exam design incollaboration with and aligned to other College Board initiatives
Monitor and improve exam validity, reliability, fairness, andquality, as well as reader reliability in accordance withestablished Program thresholds
Serve as a recognized and trusted resource within the community bycollaboration with the AP Course Leads in engagement with thecommunity to drive teacher satisfaction with the AP Life Sciences
Team Management and Deliverables (33%)\<
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