Psychometrician

A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves five million students in all 50 states.

Amplify Learning is looking for a Psychometrician to join our Research and Measurement Team. The Psychometrician will deploy leading-edge measurement techniques to support effective and differentiated instruction. The ideal candidate will help us identify and/or develop new psychometric models and methodologies for diagnosing student needs, measuring growth, and deploying those new methods in the education domain. If you are a psychometrics specialist with a deep background in modern assessment methodologies who is passionate about improving educational outcomes for all students, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities of the Psychometrician:

• Support and help advise the design of research projects, not limited to: the design and conduct of classical and IRT item analyses, equating studies, validity and efficacy studies, sampling plans, using pilot data in support of research and content design, and special statistical analyses.
• Collaborate with domain specialists to develop frameworks for modeling student achievement and growth for specific curricular units
• Offer guidance in the development of complex assessment tasks
• Prototype and build measurement models for software
• Find opportunities to employ new methodologies in curriculum development and share findings with relevant partners
• Build wide-ranging audience reports and deliver presentations that describe technical characteristics and complexities of assessments
• Provide technical leadership deploying robust psychometric models and analytic techniques as new requirements and architectures evolve;
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers and software engineers in the construction of user-facing reports in educational products.

Basic Qualifications of the Psychometrician:

• Ph.D. in a relevant field (Quantitative Psychology, Statistics, Educational Measurement, etc.)
• 2+ years of applied knowledge of the foundations of psychometrics including classical test theory, item response theory, structural equation modeling, mixed-effects modeling
• Familiarity with Bayesian methods
• Familiarity with methods for causal inference
• Knowledge and interest in applications of machine learning to measurement
• Knowledge of at least one scientific programming environment: R, Python, Stata, Matlab scripting

Preferred Qualifications of the Psychometrician:

• Experience in developing formative assessments
• Experience collaborating with multi-functional teams and subject matter specialists.
• Experience building reports for and addressing both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to deliver expert solutions for real world applications
• Knowledge of Diagnostic Classification Models and MIRT
• Proven application of software development methodology and protocols

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.