Director I, AP Computer Science Principles Curriculum and Assessment

About this role

Director I, AP Computer Science Principles Curriculum and Assessment   

College Board – AP&I  

Location:   This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office) . All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.  

Role Type :  This is a full-time position  

About the Team    

The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board (125+ staff) collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP’s 43 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 teams comprised of educators and disciplinary experts 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. AP leads in strategic use of AI to expand student access, strengthen instructional design and professional support, and enhance assessment creation and exam analysis. The Math, Computer Science, and Cybersecurity department, which includes precalculus, calculus, statistics, computer science, cybersecurity, and networking is currently comprised of approximately 22 people supporting 6 courses in the AP portfolio.  

About the Opportunity     

As the Director I, AP Computer Science Principles you will be responsible for preserving and improving the quality and validity of the AP Program’s core deliverables within the subject domain: the exam, the course curriculum, and the professional development content. You are also responsible for item development and management from authoring to administration; training and collaborating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), typically college professors and secondary school teachers. You will ethically and effectively integrate AI technologies in assessment creation and review. This includes judiciously using AI assisted tools to support fairness, validity, and innovation in AP assessments. You will train SMEs on assessment development protocols, translate between academics and technical experts (psychometricians), and collaborate to develop formative assessment materials and resources to support AP Computer Science Principles teachers worldwide. You will serve as a point of contact in AP for committees and communities of subject-matter experts and will be responsible for the curriculum and assessment for AP Computer Science Principles , and, in partnership with other AP teams, further the strategic growth of AP Computer Science Principles across the globe. Additionally, you may have the opportunity to present, speak, and moderate dialogue with academic and membership audiences to ensure that ongoing change and improvement within AP courses and exams is understood, accepted, and supported in secondary and post-secondary educational communities.      

In this role, you will:    

Assessment Development and Scoring (45-75%)    

• Serve as an assessment leader for AP Computer Science Principles , with primary responsibility for assessment development for AP Computer Science Principles .  

• In partnership with and with support from your manager, lead processes for authoring and revising assessment content, including training educator constituents. Leverages generative AI (as appropriate for subject/discipline) to author and/or review assessment content to improve and/or make more efficient assessment processes and outputs.  

• In partnership with and with support from your manager, lead the development and management of assessment content (formative and summative) and scoring materials for AP Computer Science Principles through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the AP Computer Science Principles Team , Assessment Production team, Test Development Committee, and the Chief Reader, as appropriate.  

• In partnership with and with support from your manager, lead the development of assessment forms for AP Computer Science Principles , ensuring the AP Exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications.  

• Facilitate (with support from your manager and/or other team members) multiple face-to-face, weekend meetings, and virtual meetings (during work week, evenings, or weekends) annually with the AP Computer Science Principles Test Development Committee .  

• Train and directly supervise Test Development Committee members in AP Computer Science Principles as content development contributors and reviewers. With support from your manager, you strategize and develop an agenda and approach to ensure the committee’s meeting time is of the highest productivity; you successfully adapt and pivot during the meeting as needed; and you successfully resolve all post-meeting item content edits. Recruit educators for the AP Computer Science Principles Development Committee and other opportunities to support AP Program.  

• Facilitate (with support from your manager and/or other team members) the successful scoring of student responses for AP Computer Science Principles Exams at the annual scoring event in person and online—the “AP Reading”—and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacher and student use. In partnership with and with support from your manager, you plan all-year, with increasing intensity in the months leading up to the Reading, ensuring all workflow steps for this incredibly complex event, as well as all post-Reading activities, are accounted for and successfully executed.   

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