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| Job ID: 14023951 |
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| Job Title: | Senior Director, AP World Languages Assessment Manager |
| Work Type: | Work Days: Weekdays, Work Vary: No , Shift: First (Day), Hours Per Week: 25, Work Type: Regular or Temporary |
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| Salary Offered: | Unspecified |
| Benefits: | Unspecified. |
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| Physical Required: | Unspecified |
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Senior Director, AP World Languages Assessment Manager
College Board - AP & Instruction
Location: Remote
Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board (40+ staff) collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP's 40+ courses in a wide variety of subject areas. AP® is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion, and hard work of students and educators from secondary schools and higher education. AP provides willing and academically prepared high school students with the opportunity to study and learn at the college level. AP's Course Leads and Assessment Leads ensure that course curricula are aligned to higher education expectations and reflect the state of the art in the discipline, contribute to instructional resources and tools for teachers, and develop assessments that allow students in these courses to demonstrate their mastery of course content and skills. The English, World Languages, and Arts department, which includes English Literature, English Language, Spanish Language, Italian Language, French Language, German Language, Chinese Language, Japanese Language, Latin, Music Theory, Spanish Literature, and Art and Design (2-D, 3-D, Drawing) is currently made up of 15 people supporting 14 courses in the AP portfolio.
About the Opportunity
As the Senior Director, AP World Languages Assessment Manager, you will manage a small team of assessment specialists in AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, and AP German Language and Culture, guiding their assessment work and deliverables, as well as managing their training and development in assessment best practices.
The Senior Director, AP World Languages Assessment Manager serves as the primary point of contact in AP for all assessment content for AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, and AP German Language and Culture collaborating closely with the AP World Languages Department Head. The Senior Director, AP World Languages Assessment Manager may provide assessment development support in other related subject and assessment areas. The Senior Director, AP World Languages Assessment Manager is responsible for all item development and management from authoring to administration; training and collaborating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), typically college professors and secondary school teachers. S/he/they trains SMEs on assessment development protocols, translates between academics and technical experts (psychometricians), and collaborates to develop formative assessment materials and resources to support AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, and AP German Language and Culture teachers worldwide.
In this role, you will:
Assessment Development and Scoring
* Be responsible for overseeing the development and management of all assessment content through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, and AP German Language and Culture Assessment Leads, Course Leads, Assessment Production team, Test Development Committees, and the Chief Readers
* Be responsible for overseeing the authoring/revising of assessment content and training educator constituents to author assessment content, including selection of appropriate stimulus material, and applying best assessment practicesfor AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, and AP German Language and Culture
* Be responsible for overseeing the development of all assessment forms for AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, and AP German Language and Culture, ensuring the AP Exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications
* Be responsible for overseeing multiple face-to-face, weekend meetings, and virtual meetings (during work week, evenings, or weekends) annually with each of the committees within the Senior Director's stewardship as well as other committee meetings in the world language discipline, as needed
* Be responsible for overseeing the successful scoring of student AP Exams at the annual scoring event in person and online-the AP Reading-and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacher and student usefor AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, and AP German Language and Culture
Assessment Quality and Process
* Contribute to current research and best practices related to assessment; participate in regular discussions with other AP Curriculum & Assessment members on the current assessment standards and practices to build a set of common, shared beliefs about AP's assessment directions within the larger educational and assessment community
* Contribute to processes for efficient, high-quality assessment development
* Refine and improve question task models as well as exam design in collaboration with and aligned to other College Board initiatives
* Monitor and improve exam validity, reliability, fairness, and quality, as well as reader reliability in accordance with established Program thresholds
* Serve as a recognized and trusted resource within the community by collaboration with the AP Course Leads in engagement with the community to drive teacher satisfaction with the AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, and AP German Language and Culture exams.
Team Management and Deliverables
* Manage and guide the work of AP World Language assessment specialists in the English, World Languages, and Arts department to develop high-quality assessments aligned to AP exam specifications
* Train and support assessment specialists in assessment development practices, including quality, validity, and fairness in AP assessment development and design, an understanding of the item and test development lifecycle, and proficiency with tools of assessment development, including the item authoring/item bank platform
* Collaborate with assessment specialists across the Curriculum and Assessment team to ensure the implementation of standardized assessment procedures
* Collaborate with Assessment production project managers to establish schedules for test item and test form development, and to monitor assessment deliverables for your team
* Mentor your team of assessment specialists in best practices in collaborating with and facilitating the work of test development committees and other external stakeholders
* Develop department processes, in partnership with the English, World Languages, Department Head, to ensure integration of assessment development within the department
* Collaborate with assessment leadership in Curriculum and Assessment to support the implementation and continuous improvement of assessment development practices, standardized processes, and standard operating procedures
About You
You have:
* A Master's degree in Spanish, French, Italian, or German or a directly related discipline and knowledge of current tre
To view the full job description please use the link below.
https://collegeboard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Careers/job/Remote---USA/Senior-Director--AP-World-Languages-Assessment-Manager_REQ001533
Refer to ID REQ001533_4324553092 when applying |
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