Responsible to: SEO – Item Development (Secondary)

Responsible for: EO – None

 

1. Salary Scale: EB 5
2. Purpose of the Job:

To carry out field implementation and support coordination of activities relating to Instrument Development of UCE examinations following the laid down regulations.

3. Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identifying and training UCE item writers in close collaboration with the Senior Examinations Officer.
• Ensuring reliability and validity of the items set.
• Conducting moderation meetings
• Compiling the moderated test items into draft question papers.
• Supervising the typesetting of the UCE draft question papers.
• Proofreading the typed UCE question papers.
• Analyzing, compiling, and typesetting reports on the work of candidates at UCE.

 

4. Key Performance Indicators

• Lists of UCE item writers
• Number of sets of raw test items generated.
• Number of sets of moderated test papers.
• Number of sets of compiled draft test papers.
• Number of sets of valid and reliable, and error-free test papers produced.

5. Key Decision Making

• The moderated items to be compiled into the test papers for UCE.
• Schedules of moderation and item writers’ meetings.

6. Person specification

• Academic/Professional Qualifications

Hons Bachelor’s degree in education in the desired area or Arts /Sciences in the desired area with a post graduate diploma in education or the equivalent.

• Work Experience
• Registered teacher with at least 3 years of teaching experience.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in examination management or related work in a reputable educational institution.
• Skills/Competencies/Attributes.
• Good coordination skills.
• Knowledge and experience in examination management.
• Good communication and interpersonal relations.
• Computer literate especially in word processing, and spreadsheets.
• High degree of confidentiality and integrity

Terms of Service: Permanent