What the work involves

Most tasks start with an assignment prompt — an essay question, a multi-step physics problem, a document-based history question — and ask you to build the assessment scaffolding around it. That means an analytic rubric with defensible level descriptors, then two to four exemplar student responses written deliberately at different proficiency bands, each paired with the feedback you would actually write in a margin. The exemplars are the hard part: a convincing 'partial credit' response has to fail in the way real students fail, not in a way that is obviously wrong.

The second stream is evaluation. You read model-generated rubrics, feedback, or explanations and flag where they break down — a rubric level that can't be distinguished from the one above it, feedback that praises fluency over reasoning, a worked solution that reaches the right answer through an invalid step. Alongside this you may write short research-style briefs on common misconceptions in a topic, the cognitive scaffolds that address them, and why a given instructional sequence works.

What the platform screens for

  • Concrete teaching or curriculum history at the high school level — grades, subjects, how many years, what you assessed
  • Whether you can articulate why a rubric level is written the way it is, not just produce one
  • Familiarity with standards frameworks (Common Core, NGSS, AP/IB descriptors, state standards) and how alignment actually constrains rubric language
  • Judgment under disagreement: can you defend a score against a plausible counter-read
  • Written output quality, since nearly everything you deliver is prose

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous — no scheduled classes, no live sessions. Tasks are claimed from a queue with deadlines rather than fixed shifts, which suits teachers working evenings, weekends, or over a break. Contributors report meaningful ramp-up time on the first few tasks while calibrating to the platform's formatting and rubric conventions. Pay is hourly and observed in the $40–70 band; the listing advertises rates above that for some work, which is not guaranteed for any individual contributor.