Executive Director, Assessment

Executive Director, 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 New Course Design (NCD) department leads the research, design, development, and launch of new courses and their associated exams, instructional resources, and teacher professional learning programs , ensuring consistency across these inter-related AP Program components and that they are engaging, feasible, and grounded in evidence .

After launching a new course, the NCD department focuses on continuous improvement of new courses, exams, instructional interventions, and teacher professional learning programs . NCD partners closely with the Learning and Assessment division to design and validate new item types for use in new, career-focused AP exams, and then integrates with AP Program Enablement to produce the annual exam versions within the Bluebook digital testing platform (copyright, editorial, layout, design), and to develop annual rubrics and training materials necessary to conduct the annual AP Reading of student responses.

About the Opportunity

As Executive Director, New AP Course Assessment s , you will own the exploration and identification of assessment design options for 6-8 new career-focused AP courses currently in focus, and then every new course the department builds . You will then be responsible for ongoing assessment development for new courses, from initial test blueprint s through pilot exam version s and into ongoing, year-over-year assessment item and version development.

You will partner closely with assessment innovation leaders within the Learning and Assessment department to identify, select, refine, and implement innovative item types for the AP Exams for the new career-focused AP courses, , selecting the right blend of format s and modalities for each course (e. g., traditional, skills-based, project-based, or performance-based ) based on what most validly measures the target skills, and prioritizing formats that support employer recognition or industry credential status where relevant.

You'll partner closely with the College Board’s Psychometric department and c urriculum experts to keep course design and assessment design moving together, and you'll build the internal case, and the stakeholder buy-in, for new assessment approaches alongside the traditional formats that remain part of our portfolio. You are someone who can hold both rigor and reinvention at once: in addition to your core expertise in design of authentic, relevant assessments, you are fluent enough in psychometric fundamentals to have credible technical conversations, and skilled enough in stakeholder management to bring skeptical partners along on new approaches to assessment . In this role, you…

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