Senior Director, AP English Language and Seminar Generalist, Curriculum and Assessment

About this role

College Board - AP&I  

Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the  option  of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).  

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 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 is currently made up of 28 people supporting 14 courses in the AP portfolio .    

About   the Opportunity  

As the   Senior   Director I, AP   English Language and Seminar ,   Assessment Generalist   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   across multiple course titles ; 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 , providing leadership and modeling for course experts across multiple course titles . 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   English Language and Seminar   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   English Language and Seminar ,   and, in partnership with other AP teams, further   the strategic growth of AP   English Language and Seminar   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 (40-50%)    

• Serve as an assessment leader for AP   English Language and Seminar   with primary responsibility for assessment development and final assessment (items and forms) approval for AP   English Language and   Seminar   .   Your work will vary from year to year, with accountability across multiple test titles, requiring assessment and content domain   expertise   across multiple subject areas. You will be accountable for developing and reviewing   content, and   providing final program sign-off on test forms. You will be assigned work based upon needs that vary year to year, which means you will be accountable for seamlessly moving in and out of assessment workstreams across subjects,   leveraging   your   expertise   about assessment, assessment processes, and content domain   expertise . Your work in developing and revising test content is of the quality that typically requires no adjustments based on feedback from your manager and other program leaders.   

• Independently lead processes for authoring and revising assessment content, including training educator constituents. Leverage 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.  

• Independently lead the development and management of assessment content (formative and summative) and scoring materials for AP   English Language and Seminar   through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the AP   English Language and   Seminar   ,   Assessment Production team, Test Development Committee, and the Chief Reader, as appropriate.  

• Independently lead the development of assessment forms for AP   English Language and   Seminar   ,   ensuring the AP Exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications.  

• Lead multiple face-to-face, weekend meetings, and virtual meetings (during work week, evenings, or weekends) annually with the AP   English Language and Seminar   Test Development Committees . You independently 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.  

• Train and directly supervise Test Development Committee members in AP   English Language and Seminar   as content developmen

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