Website Education Initiatives

SBU

Content Development and Pedagogical Research

Location

Bangalore

Role and Responsibilities

The Science Assessments team at Educational Initiatives is involved in making engaging and insightful assessments tools that test the level of understanding of the language of children. We are looking for passionate individuals who would love to go deeper into how children learn Science and build high quality assessments that can uncover gaps in the learning.

Responsibilities and Duties

Assessments can be broadly divided into two components, namely creation and review, and research. Key responsibilities will involve –

Creating and review of engaging content for the assessment product, Detailed Assessment, which includes –
- creating creative items based on new or existing ideas
- reviewing existing content based on quality and technical correctness
- mapping textbook content to the existing question bank
- regularly checking the quality of the question bank
- assemble tests from the question bank
- review tests created based on quality and other parameters

Researching on language acquisition/teaching methodologies –

Through reading of academic journals
Analysing data on questions
By interacting with external subject experts
By interacting with students and understanding how they think

Skillset

Required Skills:

Excellent proofreading skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to create and source engaging content for students
Ability to critically analyse questions, tests, and projects for practical use in the context of the classroom
Basic technological awareness (Windows functions, MS Office, email features)
Sticking to tight schedules and effective workload management

Preferred Skills:

Ability to interact in a productive manner with teachers and students, if needed; this should be geared towards gleaning information that will help us improve our understanding of how students learn and towards improving our offerings
Should enjoy working in a team and across teams
Should enjoy healthy debates and arguments which are critical for insight development

Education

Subject background in Science, at a Bachelors’ level or above

Experience