Math Assessment Writer/Designer

You will work collaboratively with other content creators and subject matter experts to ensure that all assessment items are accurate, rigorous, and aligned with the latest educational standards. Our first project is a single assessment, and there is potential for ongoing work across additional assessments, states, and courses.

This is a remote, independent contractor position that offers flexibility and the opportunity to work with a dynamic team of professionals.

Item writing

• Create, review, and revise Algebra 1 assessment items across the full course, including linear equations and inequalities, systems, functions, exponents and exponential models, polynomials and factoring, quadratics, radicals, and statistics with bivariate data.
• Write straightforward and easy-to-follow specifications of each assessment item, following a template.
• Author real-world and modeling problems with authentic contexts, realistic numbers, and clean, solvable mathematics.
• Verify mathematical accuracy, build each distractor around a plausible student error, and confirm that every item has one defensible correct answer.
• Ensure that all assessment items are accurate, rigorous, and aligned with Common Core and state standards.

Assessment design

• Study the target state assessment, including its released items and published blueprint, and identify what our assessment needs to match.
• Recommend how the assessment should be put together as a whole: which standards it covers, how many items each standard gets, and how items are distributed across difficulty levels.
• Recommend item types and formats that reflect those used on the state assessment, including technology-enhanced formats such as graphing, equation entry, and drag-and-drop.
• Order and balance the items so the assessment reads as a coherent form rather than a list of questions.
• Review the assembled assessment against the state model and flag gaps, redundancies, or mismatches in coverage and rigor.