Amelia Bethea

• Developed thousands of assessments for clients, Luminadatamatics, Western Governors University, supporting competency-based higher education programs
• Created original assessment items across diverse subject areas, including: Psychology, Microbiology, Special Education, Health Information Management, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Corporate and Personal Finance, and additional fields such as Business, IT, and Healthcare Administration
• Designed assessments aligned with competency-based learning models, ensuring measurable student outcomes
• Applied rigorous standards for item quality, validity, and alignment with course objectives and industry certifications
• Review and validate items for Bloom's Taxonomy cognitive levels, ensuring application level or higher

Develop comprehensive instructional content, assessments, and continuing education materials for nursing education, preparing students for NCLEX success and supporting licensed nurses in maintaining credentials.

NCLEX Instructional Content

• Author original core learning content across all nursing subject areas, including fundamentals, medical-surgical, pediatrics, obstetrics, mental health, and pharmacology
• Create engaging core lessons and assessments aligned with current nursing education standards and NCLEX test plans
• Write scripts for educational podcasts and video content

Assessment Development

• Develop Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) assessment items aligned to current NCSBN testing frameworks
• Author multiple item types, including: Traditional multiple choice/select response, Multiple response/select all that apply, and Technology-enhanced items (TEI)
• Review and validate items for Bloom's Taxonomy cognitive levels, ensuring all items meet application level or higher
• Create items assessing clinical judgment, critical thinking, and higher-order reasoning skills
• Ensure content accuracy, clinical relevance, and alignment with NCLEX test blueprints

Content Areas

• Fundamentals of Nursing
• Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Pediatric Nursing
• Maternal-Newborn/Obstetric Nursing
• Mental Health Nursing
• Pharmacology
• Leadership and Management
• Community Health

Continuing Education & Reference Updates

• Perform regular reference updates to align content with current research, clinical guidelines, and best practices
• Contributes to medical libraries and databases, updating clinical content across multiple specialties, including medical-surgical, pediatrics, obstetrics, critical care, emergency medicine, cardiology, oncology, neurology, psychiatry, pharmacology, infectious disease, and primary care
• Review and revise existing content to maintain accuracy and clinical relevance

K-12 Original Content Development

• Write original educational content, including reading passages, stimuli, videos, and other instructional materials
• Develop curriculum-aligned resources for diverse learner populations and grade levels
• Developed diverse reading passages (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, informational text) ranging from 200-1,200 words, tailored to CCSS ELA standards and state frameworks for grades K-12
• Crafted culturally responsive stories and stimuli incorporating literary devices, themes, and text complexity appropriate for summative, interim, and formative assessments
• Created passage sets with embedded scaffolds for multi-DOK items, including TEIs (e.g., drag-and-drop evidence matching, hotspot identification)
• Produce materials across all four core subject areas: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies

Assessment Development

• Author original assessment items aligned to Common Core State Standards and state-specific standards across ELA, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies
• Develop formative, interim, and summative assessment content for K-12 and higher education markets
• Create items across multiple Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels and item types, including selected response, constructed response, and technology-enhanced items
• Ensure bias-free, accessible content meeting sensitivity and fairness guidelines
• Collaborate with and coordinate content specialists and subject matter experts on item review and validation

Editorial Services

• Provide comprehensive instructional and developmental editing, ensuring content accuracy, pedagogical soundness, and standards alignment
• Execute detailed copy editing for grammar, style, consistency, and clarity
• Perform final proofreading, ensuring publication-ready deliverables
• Apply and enforce client style guides, editorial standards, and specifications

Project & Client Management

• Manage multiple concurrent projects across various clients, subject areas, and grade bands
• Recruit, train, and supervise teams of subject matter experts, writers, and editors
• Deliver projects on deadline while maintaining rigorous quality standards
• Build long-term client relationships resulting in repeat engagements and referrals

• Sourced high-quality photographs and managed permissions for hundreds of educational book titles and series, ensuring visual accuracy, content validity, and seamless integration into Scholastic's award-winning publications.
• Photo Research & Sourcing
• Researched and curated photographs for hundreds of book titles and series, verifying accuracy, historical relevance, and content validity to enhance educational storytelling
• Identified and selected imagery that precisely illustrated concepts, supporting curriculum goals across subjects like science, geography, and social studies
• Collaborated with editors, designers, and authors to align visuals with manuscript content and pedagogical objectives