Provide assistance in directing aspects of item development projects for statewide educational assessments, specifically in the English language arts. Assist in the supervision of item development staff including other content specialists and item writers. Supervise and train test item writers. Apply client test item specifications to the creation of new selected-response, constructed-response items.

Supervise item development, test piloting, and test construction. Facilitate item and bias review meetings with client. Design and conduct professional development training activities for teachers. Generate project reports. Coordinate activities of project team members to ensure delivery of contract products in a timely manner. Coordinate project activities between company staff departments. Maintain close communication with client’s staff to facilitate meetings and other joint activities. Document all critical project activities.

Supervise and train test item writers. Apply client test item specifications to the creation of new selected-response, constructed-response items, extended-response items, performance tasks, and writing prompts. Work with teachers from the client state in revising current specifications as well as train them to write items.

Staff Writer for http://www.raleighmusic.com - I write reviews of various live shows/concerts in the Triangle.

Responsibilities included refining and finalizing the scoring criteria in cooperation with the client, selecting responses for training procedures, training team leaders and supervising the training of readers, monitoring reader and team leader performance to maintain validity and reliability for the duration of the project, and gathering documentation material for the final report.

Responsibilities included learning the scoring criteria, then training and supervising 10–12 readers who scored student essays and/or open-ended test items. Duties involved monitoring readers to maintain validity and reliability, retraining as necessary, and resolving discrepant scores assigned by readers.