Diploma Exam Lead,Français Job Edmonton area,Alberta Canada,Education / Teaching

Position: Diploma Exam Lead, Français 30-2

Role Responsibilities

Are you passionate about education, assessment, and student achievement? Join our team as Diploma Exam Lead, Français 30-2 and play a pivotal role in shaping provincial assessments that impact students across Alberta. In this dynamic role, you will lead the development and delivery of high-quality Français 30-2 diploma examinations, collaborate with educators and subject matter experts, and help ensure assessments are fair, valid, and aligned with curriculum outcomes.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to educational excellence while influencing the future of student learning and achievement.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Humanities, the Diploma Exam Lead, Français 30-2 is responsible for overseeing the design, development, scoring, and reporting of Alberta’s Français 30-2 diploma exams. This role requires written and oral mastery of the French and English languages, as well as subject matter expertise in minority Francophone Education contexts.

The responsibilities of the Diploma Exam Lead, Français 30-2 are as follows:

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ssessment development and production: Produce high-quality, valid and reliable diploma exams to ensure fairness to students.

Assessment standards and blueprints: Develop and confirm assessment standards and blueprints that reflect the Program of Studies and Curriculum through collaboration with Ministry colleagues and consultation with clients, stakeholders, and partners.

Psychometric quality and fairness: Collaborate with psychometricians to ensure psychometric principles and guidelines are applied to field tests, diploma exams, development processes, and marking processes to support valid, reliable, and fair results for students.

Technical review and exam validation: Chair technical advisory committee meetings to scrutinize diploma exams prior to production and ensure they meet quality and validity expectations.

Document production, support materials, and special formats: Collaborate with the Document Production Unit and Special Cases Unit to ensure field tests, diploma exams, support documents, and special-format materials meet standards for quality, format, language, and accessibility.

French translation and equivalency: Work with other diploma exam teams to ensure French translations and revisions are equivalent to English versions for mathematics, social studies, and science.

Written response marking and scoring: Develop and manage written response marking and scoring processes that ensure fairness to students and reliability and validity of results.

Collaboration and digital transition: Collaborate with other subject areas, assessment areas, sectors, and branches, support the transition of diploma exams to a digital format, and contribute to the evolution of provincial assessment programs.

Teacher engagement, results reporting, and assigned duties: Recruit and train teachers in field test question construction, build teacher capacity in assessing curricular learning outcomes, ensure diploma exam data are accurate for results reviews and reporting, provide advice on interpreting diploma exam results, mentor or supervise an interchange participant when applicable, and perform duties as assigned.

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