Assessment Item Writer / Editor

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10 Jan 2025
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Information Technology & Services

About Instructure

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Instructureโ€™s Assessment Content Team is seeking freelance Assessment Writers and Editors to support the development of assessment products, including the Mastery View Predictive Assessments, Mastery View College Prep Assessments, and Mastery Item Banks. Item writers and editors will assist with the development of assessment products by creating, reviewing, formatting, and revising test items and assessments.

This is a contractor position with variable and flexible hours that are negotiated on a project-by-project basis.

This role is compensated on a per-project basis.

Responsibilities:

  • Work independently and collaboratively with the assessment content team to create, review, edit, and/or revise test items based on state standards and grade-level appropriateness to meet internal and external deadlines.
  • Execute against blueprints to develop well-rounded assessments to meet customer needs.

Requirements:

  • Strong professional assessment writing and/or editing experience – particularly experience authoring tech-enhanced items directly in an assessment management system
  • Strong understanding of what makes well-composed and balanced assessment items and forms
  • Ability to write assessment items for students in K-12th grade with a strong understanding of Depth of Knowledge, rigor, differentiation, text complexity, and readability
  • Deep knowledge of academic standards and how to design strongly-aligned assessments
  • Ability to provide constructive feedback regarding assessment items or design
  • Subject-matter expertise in ELA, math, science, or social studies
  • Experience in education; former teaching experience is a plus but is not required
  • Experience working with educational publishers is a plus

Weโ€™ve always believed in hiring the most awesome people and treating them right. We know that the more diverse we are, the more diverse our ideas will be and when we openly welcome those ideas, our environment is better and our business is stronger.

At Instructure we participate in E-Verify and yes, in case you didn’t catch it from the above, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All Instructure employees are required to successfully pass a background check upon being hired.

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