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Do you enjoy surfacing insights through data that could have an impact on K-12 student education? Do you have a strong attention to detail that allows you to examine data in a way no one else can? This internship with the Research Department will enable data-driven decision making for a variety of departments that support students, teachers, and product development. The Quantitative Research Intern will be responsible for assisting researchers with strategic analyses, data visualization, and reports on a variety of K-12 content areas. Because data never arrives in perfect form, this intern will be ready to rise to the challenge of translating data into derivable insights.This role is a great opportunity for those looking to gain experience in conducting research, education technology, learning analytics, psychometrics, impact measurement, product analytics, and program evaluation. This is a part time role (around 20 hours a week) and will be a summer internship (from around June 1 to late August).

Responsibilities

• Use R and/or SPSS to independently merge, clean, manipulate, and quantitatively analyze large survey, assessment, and platform activity datasets using frequentist statistical methods
• Conduct Factor Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Regressions, and ANCOVA when appropriate
• Use Google slides to create and present both narrative and visual representations of the data analyses to the team
• Conduct literature reviews when required for team projects
• Source validated surveys from research when required for student measurement within courses, where available
• Attend weekly team meetings
• Other job-related duties as assigned

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in, or recently completed, a Master’s or Doctoral program that had a strong quantitative focus
• At least two years of experience independently merging, cleaning, and analyzing data; can be from graduate work, research/lab experience.
• Experience using R and/or SPSS for statistical analysis and data visualization
• Experience conducting Factor Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Regressions, and ANCOVA
• Some experience with data manipulation via SQL and/or PowerQuery
• Some experience with fundamental psychometric analyses (i.e. reliability)
• Preferred (but not required) experience conducting Rasch Modeling or IRT analyses
• Preferred (but not required) experience with Tableau
• Strong data visualization skills.
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficiency with Microsoft and Google suite (specifically Excel and Google Slides)
• Some experience translating data stories and results to a lay audience
• A desire to contribute to a growing area of K-12 education and be on a team passionate about the digital learning space

Perks:

• Competitive hourly wage
• Opportunity to gain great experience in the education technology space
• Part-time role around 20 hours a week

EVERFI appreciates your interest in our company as a place of employment. It is EVERFI policy to provide equal opportunity for employment to all qualified employees and applicants, regardless of race, religion, religious affiliation, ancestry, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. This policy applies to all areas of employment including recruitment, placement, training, transfer, promotion, termination, pay, and other forms of compensation and benefits. EVERFI will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.