What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Assessment Development position at The American Board of Anesthesiology, Inc.?
Responsibilities
1. Item Development
- Oversees annual item development projects ensuring that Examination and Content Editors assigned to written exams and MOCA Minute complete tasks and meet deadlines.
- Monitors item development processes, procedures, and products for quality and recommends improvements as needed.
- Maintains the ABA Item Development Guides for test item construction for all written examinations and MOCA Minute.
- Supports special work groups as needed, including creating writing assignments, guiding question authors and editors through question-writing assignments, and providing oversight and follow-up to ensure that deadlines are met.
- Proofreads exam items for grammar, punctuation, consistency, and accuracy. Keeps all information about exam items and related material confidential and secure from unauthorized access.
- Reviews annual item bank analyses and item development plans to ensure item banks remain robust.
- Oversees annual evaluation of question author performance and contributes to recommendations for question author retention and promotion.
- Oversees annual question author recruitment and presents at two annual Item Writing Workshops
- Monitors the integrity of equating items in all item banks.
- Uploads item statistics into item banking system following exam administration.
2. Examination Assembly
3. Exam Publishing and Scoring
4. Vendor Support