Description

Research Team Summer Masters Internship - Remote

About Us

The NWEA™ Summer Research Internship Program introduces outstanding graduate students to the organization. Founded by educators over 40 years ago, NWEA is a global not-for-profit educational services organization known for our flagship interim assessment MAP® Growth™. More than 8,000 partners in U.S. schools, school districts, education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer pre-kindergarten through grade 12 assessments that accurately measure student growth and learning needs, offer professional development that fosters educators' ability to accelerate student learning, and conduct research that explores foundational issues in education. Educators currently use NWEA assessments with nearly eight million students to better inform instruction and maximize every learner's academic growth.

About the Internship:

The MAP Growth Norms provide context for what a MAP Growth RIT score means in relation to other students' growth and achievement to partners, parents, and students. As each year passes, the norms become less relevant to the current student population and need to be refreshed using new test data. NWEA Research, Psychometric Solutions, Content, and Product Engineering teams collaborate regularly to refresh the norms, and to explore and apply innovations.

The purpose of this project is to improve the efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility of the MAP Growth norms refresh processes. This master's level intern will provide support to NWEA's Research Team by working with engineers and researchers to create and modify a robust and reproducible data and documentation pipeline for the MAP Growth Norms. This project will be completed collaboratively using git and R.

The internship program runs in the summer months, with interns working at NWEA full-time for a nine-week period. NWEA will compensate $8,400, paid on a weekly schedule. Compensation is subject to tax. Interns have access to NWEA research resources, computer hardware and software, and seminar presentations. All NWEA interns will be remote.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be familiar with git (Bitbucket), and R/Rstudio
• Full-time students who have completed one year of graduate work leading toward a master's degree in educational measurement, educational psychology, statistics, educational policy, or related fields.
• Students must be enrolled full-time in a graduate degree program at a fully accredited university to be considered for the program.

Application Process

Submit your application materials through NWEA's JobVite site before by 5:00 pm PT on Friday, February 24th, 2023. Applications must include the following:

1. Resume or curriculum vitae
2. One-page cover letter that briefly describes:
   1. How your interests and past experiences would contribute to NWEA and this project
   2. Your skills and methodological expertise and how you have used those tools in previous research experiences
   3. Why you are interested in the NWEA Summer Internship Program and what role you see this experience playing in your career development
   4. The 9-weeks that you are available over the summer (earliest start date)
3. Letter from your advisor indicating his/her/their support of your participation in the internship program, emailed to Leanne Murray at [email protected]

Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Please ensure all documents are submitted by February 24th, 2023.

For questions, please reach out to Dr. Meredith Langi at [email protected].