Scoring Assistant- Languages Other Than English (LOTEs)

Industry: Professional Development

Company: Pearson Education

Job Description

We are the world’s learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.

The Evaluation Systems group of Pearson offers dynamic teacher licensing and performance assessment solutions. Our custom teacher licensure testing programs are 100 percent aligned to state standards. We also provide a wide variety of teacher licensure testing services such as test development, administration, and scoring. We work in a collaborative environment and are passionate about education.

Scoring offers the opportunity to network with other professionals and stay abreast of the latest developments in your field. Scorers have a direct impact on the quality of the next generation of teachers and help to maintain professional standards. Scorers enjoy the change of pace, the mental challenge and the opportunity to give back to their educational field.

We have immediate openings for candidates to score Languages Other Than English exams for the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) in our Sacramento, California office.

Languages Other Than English (LOTEs)

• Arabic
• Armenian
• Cantonese
• Farsi
• Filipino
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hmong
• Italian
• Japanese
• Kmer
• Korean
• Mandarin
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish
• Vietnamese

Qualifications

An Exam Scorer- Languages Other Than English must…

• be a native speaker of the language with a college/university degree, OR
• hold a graduate degree in the appropriate language, OR
• hold a Single Subject Teaching Credential in the appropriate language, OR
• be a college or university educator who holds a degree in the language and/or has responsibility for teaching or advising students in that field, OR
• have an authorization to teach the corresponding language in California public schools, OR
• have served as a Single Subject Assessments for Teaching scorer in the appropriate language, OR
• have served as a CTC-approved member of the appropriate CSET language test development and/or standard setting committee.

Key benefits

• Rate of $17.50/hour.
• Most language scoring is offered in single day sessions in May and October. Some languages are offered more regularly.
• Sessions offered Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00am-4:00pm PST
• Many sessions are complete in 4-6 hours
• Training and review are part of every session.
• Flexibility to work scoring sessions which suit your availability.
• Recently retired and current California educators, who meet the qualifications, are encouraged to apply.

Overall Responsibilities

• Evaluates responses of teacher candidates in California.
• Successfully internalizes training and scoring guide.
• Participate in discussions.
• Must be able to put aside personal biases and apply scoring guide according to rubric requirements.
• Meets quality and productivity requirements established for the scoring program.
• Engage with other scorers in consensus scoring activities.