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This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12217179 Director, AP Music Theory

College Board - AP & Instruction

Location: Remote

Type: Full time, permanent

About the Team

The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board (65+ staff) collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP\'s 40+ 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 Leads and Assessment Leads 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. 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 25 people supporting 14 courses in the AP portfolio.

About the Opportunity

As the Director, AP Music Theory, you are responsible for ensuring the quality and validity of assessment content for the AP Music Theory exam. The Director, AP Music Theory may provide assessment development support in other related subject areas. The Director, AP Music Theory is responsible for all item development and management from authoring to administration; training and collaborating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), typically college professors and secondary school teachers. S/he/they train SMEs on assessment development protocols, translates between academics and technical experts (psychometricians), and collaborates to develop formative assessment materials and resources to support AP Music Theory teachers worldwide.

In this role, you will:

Assessment Development and Scoring - 60%

• Develop, review, and approve AP Music Theory exam content in collaboration with AP Assessment C+A staff and ETS, ensuring the exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications
• Support the authoring/revising of assessment content and training educator constituents to author assessment content, including selection of appropriate stimulus material, and applying best assessment practices
• Support the development and management of all assessment content through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the Assessment Production team, Test Development Committee, and the Chief Reader
• Support the development of all assessment forms, ensuring the AP Exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications
• Conduct multiple face-to-face, weekend meetings, and virtual meetings (during work week, evenings, or weekends) annually with each of the committees within the Director\'s stewardship as well as other committee meetings in the discipline as needed
• Support the successful scoring of student AP Exams at the annual scoring event in person and online-the \"AP Reading\"-and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacher and student use

Curriculum and Assessment Quality and Process - 40%

• Contribute to current research and best practices related to assessment; participate in regular discussions with other AP Curriculum & Assessment members on the current assessment standards and practices to build a et of common, shared beliefs about AP\'s assessment directions within the larger educational and assessment community
• Contribute to processes for efficient, high-quality assessment development
• Refine and improve question task models as well as exam design in collaboration with and aligned to other College Board initiatives
• Monitor and improve exam validity, reliability, fairness, and quality, as well as reader reliability in accordance with established Program thresholds
• Recruit, train, and directly supervise Committee members in AP Music Theory as content development contributors. Liaise with key internal stakeholders (AP Publications, AP Project Management, and AP Professional Development staff) to execute project plans
• Assist efforts to recruit college faculty and experienced AP teachers to serve as AP Readers; co-lead the planning and execution of discipline-specific AP Faculty Colloquia events
• Serve as a recognized and trusted resource within the AP Music Theory community to drive teacher satisfaction with the AP Music Theory exam.

About You

You have:

A Master\'s degree in Music Theory or a directly related discipline and knowledge of current trends in the discipline (required), although a doctorate in