Director I, AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Curriculum and Assessment

About this role

Director I, AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 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 Science department, which includes biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, environmental science, and Research, is currently comprised of approximately 25 people supporting 10 courses in the AP portfolio.
About the Opportunity
As the Director I, AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism, and, in partnership with other AP teams, further the strategic growth of AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism, with primary responsibility for assessment development for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism. Your work in developing and revising test content is of the quality that requires only minimal adjustments based on feedback from your manager and other program leaders.

• Independently lead processes for authoring and revising assessment content, including training educator constituents and leveraging generative AI to author and/or review assessment content, improving and/or making more efficient assessment processes and outputs.

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

• Independently lead the development of assessment forms for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism, 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Test Development Committee. 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.

• Train and directly supervise Test Development Committee members in AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism as content development contributors and reviewers. Recruit educators for the AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Development Committee and other opportunities to support AP Program.

• Lead the successful scoring of student responses for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Exams at the annual scoring event in person and online—the “AP Reading”—and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacher and student use. 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.

Assessment Quality and Process (10-15%)

• Contribute to current research and best practices in assessment, and engage regularly with AP Curriculum & Assessment colleagues to align on standards and shared principles guiding AP’s assessment…