Alternate Assessment Psychometrician - Education Research Consultant 15B

Office of Educational Assessment & Accountability (OEAA)

This office is within the DASISS and includes the following responsibilities:

• Developing, administering, and reporting on assessment programs
• Jointly developing and maintaining content standards with OES
• Electronically housing the libraries of content standards developed jointly with OES
• Developing achievement standards (i.e., proficiency standards or cut scores) on the assessment programs for which it is responsible
• Operating the Formative Assessment for Michigan Educators (FAME)
• Program and data management of all OEAA projects
• Management for all the OEAA systems (Secure Site, Item Bank System, etc.)
• Responding to assessment and accountability reports and state analysis requests

This position functions as the Alternate Assessment Psychometrician performing specialized assignments for statewide Michigan’s alternate assessments (MI-Access) with 10,000 or more test takers, using highly complex advanced statistical research methods and analysis. MI-Access is Michigan's alternate assessment system and is designed for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The primary areas of responsibilities include development and implementation of psychometric procedures and research that are required to ensure the highest standards of measurement quality for the state’s assessments and accountability projects.

This position also serves as the project coordinator for all psychometric, statistical and accountability related deliverables for MI-Access.

Primary Physical Work Address - Position is located at the John Hannah Building, 608 West Allegan Street, Lansing, Michigan. Hybrid flexible schedule of in-person and remote work arrangement.