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This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/11811683 Senior Director, AP World Languages and Literature Assessment Manager (Spanish Fluent)

College Board - AP & Instruction

Location: Remote

Type: This is a full-time position

About the Team

The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board (40+ staff) collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP\'s 40+ courses in a wide variety of subject areas. AP is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion, and hard work of students and educators from secondary schools and higher education. AP provides willing and academically prepared high school students with the opportunity to study and learn at the college level. AP\'s Course Leads and Assessment Leads ensure that course curricula are aligned to higher education expectations and reflect the state of the art in the discipline, contribute to instructional resources and tools for teachers, and develop assessments that allow students in these courses to demonstrate their mastery of course content and skills. The English, World Languages, and Arts department, which includes English Literature, English Language, Spanish Language, Italian Language, French Language, German Language, Chinese Language, Japanese Language, Latin, Music Theory, Spanish Literature, and Art and Design (2-D, 3-D, Drawing) is currently made up of 15 people supporting 14 courses in the AP portfolio.

About the Opportunity

As the Senior Director, AP World Languages and Literature Assessment Manager you will manage a small team of assessment specialists in AP Spanish Literature and AP Latin guiding their assessment work and deliverables, as well as managing their training and development in assessment best practices.

The Senior Director, AP World Languages and Literature Assessment Manager serves as the primary point of contact in AP for all assessment content for AP Spanish Literature and AP Latin collaborating closely with the AP World Languages Department Head and Senior Director, AP English, World Languages, and Arts Assessment Manager. The Senior Director, AP World Languages and Literature Assessment Manager may provide assessment development support in other related subject areas. The Senior Director, AP World Languages and Literature Assessment Manager is responsible for all item development and management from authoring to administration; training and collaborating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), typically college professors and secondary school teachers. S/he/they trains SMEs on assessment development protocols, translates between academics and technical experts (psychometricians), and collaborates to develop formative assessment materials and resources to support AP Spanish Literature and AP Latin teachers worldwide.

In this role, you will:

Assessment Development and Scoring (33%)

• Be responsible for overseeing the development and management of all assessment content through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the AP Spanish Literature and AP Latin Assessment Leads, Course Leads, Assessment Production team, Test Development Committees, and the Chief Readers
• Be responsible for overseeing the authoring/revising of assessment content and training educator constituents to author assessment content, including selection of appropriate stimulus material, and applying best assessment practicesfor AP Spanish Literature and AP Latin.
• Be responsible for overseeing the development of all assessment forms for AP Spanish Literature and AP Latin, ensuring the AP Exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications
• Be responsible for overseeing multiple face-to-face, weekend meetings, and virtual meetings (during work week, evenings, or weekends) annually with each of the committees within the Senior Director\'s stewardship as well as other committee meetings in the world language discipline, as needed
• Be responsible for overseeing the successful scoring of student AP Exams at the annual scoring event in person and online-the AP Reading-and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacher and student usefor AP Spanish Literature and AP Latin

Assessment Quality and Process (33%)

Contribute to current research and best practices related to assessment; participate in regular discussions with other AP Curriculum & Assessment members on the current assessment standards and practices to build a set of common, shared beliefs about AP\'s assessment directions within the larger educational and assessment community

Contribute to processes for efficient, high-quality assessment development

Refine and improve question task models as well as exam design in collaboration with and aligned to other College Board initiatives

Monitor and improve exam validity, reliability, fairness, and quality, as well as reader reliability in accordance with established Program thresholds

Serve as a recognized and trusted resource within the community by collaboration w