Director of Assessment
Declara, founded in 2012, operates on the premise that learning does not only happen in schools but continues for a lifetime in which people need to constantly master skills. Its technology platform uses semantic search and recommendations to surface the right content at the right time for individuals, making learning more personalized and discovery oriented. This enables individuals as well as entire communities to learn, making everyone smarter. Declara is seeking an experienced Director of Assessment to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a critical role in improving and empirically demonstrating the effectiveness of Declara’s innovative learning platform.You will be responsible for guiding the assessment vision and roadmap at Declara. You will help move Declara to an ‘invisible’ assessment environment, where learners are constantly being assessed without formal testing. You will collaboratively define how content is recommended to learners on the basis of test performance. You will create specifications for a technical assessment infrastructure (including item authoring, tagging, item pools, and analysis) and help guide the design / acquisition of said infrastructure. You will create customer-facing guidelines and training material for best practices in test development and interface with customers who are creating and/or tagging test items. You will also oversee the creation, validation, and incorporation of self-assessments, placement, proficiency, and specific knowledge assessments.As a result of your efforts, we will be able to recommend appropriate learning content to learners, reliably measure and track student progress, and continuously improve and optimize the student learning experience. You will work closely with other members of the learning team, as well as with members of the product management, UI/UX, engineering, and client services teams to implement personalized learning content recommendations and other cutting-edge technological learning solutions.Come join our dynamic team of data scientists, engineers, product gurus and other industry veterans; help us build highly effective, personalized, and engaging learning experiences that delight our customers. The position is full-time and based in our Palo Alto office.
Title: Director of Assessment
Salary: None
Description: Declara, founded in 2012, operates on the premise that learning does not only happen in schools but continues for a lifetime in which people need to constantly master skills. Its technology platform uses semantic search and recommendations to surface the right content at the right time for individuals, making learning more personalized and discovery oriented. This enables individuals as well as entire communities to learn, making everyone smarter. Declara is seeking an experienced Director of Assessment to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a critical role in improving and empirically demonstrating the effectiveness of Declara’s innovative learning platform.You will be responsible for guiding the assessment vision and roadmap at Declara. You will help move Declara to an ‘invisible’ assessment environment, where learners are constantly being assessed without formal testing. You will collaboratively define how content is recommended to learners on the basis of test performance. You will create specifications for a technical assessment infrastructure (including item authoring, tagging, item pools, and analysis) and help guide the design / acquisition of said infrastructure. You will create customer-facing guidelines and training material for best practices in test development and interface with customers who are creating and/or tagging test items. You will also oversee the creation, validation, and incorporation of self-assessments, placement, proficiency, and specific knowledge assessments.As a result of your efforts, we will be able to recommend appropriate learning content to learners, reliably measure and track student progress, and continuously improve and optimize the student learning experience. You will work closely with other members of the learning team, as well as with members of the product management, UI/UX, engineering, and client services teams to implement personalized learning content recommendations and other cutting-edge technological learning solutions.Come join our dynamic team of data scientists, engineers, product gurus and other industry veterans; help us build highly effective, personalized, and engaging learning experiences that delight our customers. The position is full-time and based in our Palo Alto office.
Requirements: None experience, None education
Fraudulent: No