Assessment Specialist VA
A senior Assessment Specialist designs, builds and analyses the tests, quizzes and practical assessments that prove your learners or candidates have the skills you need, with valid questions and reliable results.
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Description
An Assessment Specialist VA designs and analyses tests, quizzes and practical assessments that measure whether learners or candidates have achieved the required skills or knowledge. They can create assessment blueprints, write questions, develop scoring guides and analyse results for reliability and quality. Outsource Teams provides top 1% vetted talent with assessment design and educational measurement experience, no lock-in contracts and a replacement guarantee, helping organisations build fair, consistent and defensible assessment programmes.
Responsibilities
- Design assessment blueprints that map questions to learning objectives, competency frameworks or job requirements.
- Write and edit multiple choice, short answer, scenario and performance-based items to recognised quality standards.
- Build assessments in platforms such as Questionmark, Moodle Quiz, ExamSoft, TAO or the client's LMS, including question banks and randomisation.
- Develop marking rubrics and scoring guides that produce consistent results across different markers.
- Run item analysis using difficulty, discrimination and reliability statistics and retire or rewrite weak questions.
- Coordinate subject matter expert reviews, pilot testing and standard setting sessions.
- Produce results reports for learners, managers and accreditation bodies with clear interpretation.
- Maintain assessment security, version control and integrity procedures including online proctoring settings.
- Ensure assessments are accessible and fair, with reasonable adjustments applied where needed.
- Keep documentation of validity evidence and quality assurance for audits and accreditation.
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Requirements
- 5+ years in assessment design, psychometrics, exam development or educational measurement.
- A degree in education, psychology, measurement or a related field, with postgraduate study preferred.
- Skilled in item writing, rubric design and item analysis, with statistical tools such as Excel, SPSS or R.
- Experience with assessment platforms such as Questionmark, ExamSoft, TAO or LMS quiz engines.
- Understanding of validity, reliability, fairness and accessibility standards in assessment.
- Precise written English and the ability to write unambiguous questions and clear reports.
- High-speed internet with a backup power option, and available during the client's working hours for review meetings.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of assessments can they create?
They can design multiple-choice questions, short-answer tasks, scenarios and performance-based assessments.
Can they create marking rubrics?
Yes. They can develop scoring guides and rubrics designed to produce consistent results across different assessors.
Can they analyse assessment quality?
Yes. They can review question difficulty, discrimination and reliability data and identify questions that need to be revised or removed.
Can they build assessments inside our platform?
Yes. They can work with systems such as Questionmark, Moodle Quiz, ExamSoft, TAO and LMS-based quiz engines.
What tools can they use?
They can work with Google Forms, Moodle, ExamSoft, Microsoft Forms, Canvas and Microsoft Excel.
How much does it cost?
Rates start at $7 USD per hour for entry level, $9 USD per hour for intermediate and $12 USD per hour for senior talent. Full-time and part-time options are available.
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