Intern II/III - Data Science
City of Greeley
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Senior Research Scientist
Pearson VUE
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $90,000 - $115,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
JavaJavaScriptPerl
About the role
- Lead the design and execution of efficacy studies and research initiatives for classroom assessment products (Navvy)
- Contribute innovative methodologies to inform classroom product development
- Support data management processes for operational item banks and dynamic form creation
- Design and implement studies on predictive validity, efficacy, and evaluation; define study parameters and funding needs
- Coordinate resources, maintain documentation, and deliver reports and presentations
- Analyze item bank and form characteristics to support thousands of micro-assessments
- Collaborate with subject-matter experts on content development, test design, item review, and reporting
- Explore AI-driven and game-based assessment solutions for personalized instruction and immersive learning
- Deliver tailored technical presentations, present at national conferences, and submit manuscripts for publication
- Apply project management to ensure timely, budget-conscious execution and ensure marketing claims are evidence-based
Requirements
- Advanced degree in educational measurement, statistics, or a related field from a nationally recognized institution
- Minimum of three years of relevant experience in psychometric assessment or educational research
- Proficiency in classical test theory, item response theory, diagnostic classification modeling, test equating, scaling/linking, and standard setting
- Experience with efficacy analysis and advanced applied data analysis
- Familiarity with tools such as SAS, R, SPSS, WINSTEPS, IRTPro, PARSCALE, C++, MPLUS
- OR experience with Matlab, IDL, PERL, Java, JavaScript, XML and their application in testing or research environments
- Experience applying innovative techniques from your area of expertise to novel educational contexts
- Project management, documentation, presentation, and report-writing skills
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and subject-matter experts
- Ability to travel up to 10% and work remotely
