Assessment Design Intern

At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here, and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!

Assessment Design Intern

Curriculum Associates is seeking a college student on track for a Bachelor's degree in Education, Design, Computer Science, or related field with strong analytic and design skills to join our Assessment Design team as a summer intern. By applying your design mindset and technical skills, you will help the Assessment Design team in ensuring that all assessment editorial item metadata is organized in systems that allow for convenient analysis and retrieval.

The impact you’ll have:

In this role, you will apply your skills and knowledge to create tools and provide information that supports the work of the Assessment Design and Editorial teams across the suite of assessment products. You will perform data wrangling, cleaning, manipulation, management, and analysis to answer questions and create efficiencies for the Assessment Design and Editorial teams. You will also carry out activities related to uploading content, assets, and metadata of assessment items and passages into various authoring platforms.

• Create, manage, and maintain content management processes and tools to meet the needs of the Assessment Design and Editorial teams, when in-system solutions are unavailable.

• Create and QC datasets to coordinate handoffs of assessment metadata cross-organizationally, including with Product and Psychometric teams.

• Complete internal and external content tagging and alignment projects.

• Retrieve data from various sources and perform data manipulation and answer questions or create efficiencies for members of the AD/AE team.

• Strategically craft item sets and accompanying metadata, analyses, and/or summaries in support of assessment item banks, such as for a pilot.

Who we’re looking for:

• Ability to translate user needs in order to design and implement solutions, including tools to increase efficiency

• Proficient in various programming languages and skilled in applying this knowledge to use advanced capabilities of Excel

• Curiosity and initiative to learn new technologies and skills, and to procure information using available resources

• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects while maintaining a high level of attention to detail

• Ability to work in a self-directed way and use critical thinking skills to identify issues with data accuracy and data integrity

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities as needs shift

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• A degree in or pursuing a degree in a Design or Educational discipline, or equivalent experience.

Location: Remote

Benefits and Pay Range:
Pay – This role’s base pay is $20.00/hour. The Company recognizes that minimum wage varies by location and will ensure all compensation decisions comply with applicable state and local laws.

Benefits – Temporary and per-diem employees who average at least 30 hours of work per week within the Company’s look-back period are eligible to enroll in medical coverage after 90 days of employment. Temporary and per-diem employees working more than 20 hours per week are eligible for twelve paid holidays. All temporary and per-diem employees are eligible for accrued sick time.