Description
Learning and Assessment Engineer –Remote Internship Opportunity
This internship can be fully remote and located anywhere in the United States. Qualified applicants from all time zones are encouraged to apply.
About This Role
Learning and Assessment Engineering Interns provide support to NWEA’s Learning and Assessment Engineering Team. The Learning and Assessment Engineering Team at NWEA is responsible for making academic assessments more useful to students, teachers, and administrators. We use Bayesian inference, machine learning, cognitive modeling, and other techniques to improve our inferences of student ability, increase the efficiency of assessment development, and develop new ways of measuring student learning.
As a Learning and Assessment Engineer, Intern, you willperform diagnostic modeling of student learning. You will collaborate with teammates and researchers, evaluate cutting-edge modeling techniques, gain familiarity with educational datasets, and learn about educational assessment.
This is a paid internship, with flexibility in hours and start date.
Experience and Eligibility
This position will involve computationally intensive work, so we are seeking a candidate with previous experience with some or all of: programming (Python or R), Bayesian modeling (e.g. Stan or other), and neural networks (PyTorch or Tensorflow). Experience with cognitive modeling and/or behavioral data analysis is a plus.
Graduate students or post-graduate individuals with substantial research experience are preferred, though motivated undergraduates with cognitive and/or computational modeling experience will be seriously considered, as will individuals with primarily industry or independent experience.
To Apply
Submit your application using the provided link or visit us on our careers page at nwea.org. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Applications should include the following:
About Us
The NWEA™ Summer Research Internship Program introduces outstanding doctoral and undergraduate 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, professional development that fosters educators’ ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation. To better inform instruction and maximize every learner’s academic growth, educators currently use NWEA assessments with nearly eight million students.
NWEA strives to make diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices the center of our work. Our organization’s mission, Partnering to Help All Kids Learn, is the foundation for our DEIA commitment as we work to reflect, value, and support the educators, students, colleagues, and communities we serve. We seek to empower and engage all stakeholders in the research, services,solutions,and products we provide, our organizational culture, and the partnerships we establish with schools, districts, states, and countries.
NWEA
Portland Oregon
United States
Engineering
(No Timezone Provided)
Description
Learning and Assessment Engineer –Remote Internship Opportunity
This internship can be fully remote and located anywhere in the United States. Qualified applicants from all time zones are encouraged to apply.
About This Role
Learning and Assessment Engineering Interns provide support to NWEA’s Learning and Assessment Engineering Team. The Learning and Assessment Engineering Team at NWEA is responsible for making academic assessments more useful to students, teachers, and administrators. We use Bayesian inference, machine learning, cognitive modeling, and other techniques to improve our inferences of student ability, increase the efficiency of assessment development, and develop new ways of measuring student learning.
As a Learning and Assessment Engineer, Intern, you willperform diagnostic modeling of student learning. You will collaborate with teammates and researchers, evaluate cutting-edge modeling techniques, gain familiarity with educational datasets, and learn about educational assessment.
This is a paid internship, with flexibility in hours and start date.
Experience and Eligibility
This position will involve computationally intensive work, so we are seeking a candidate with previous experience with some or all of: programming (Python or R), Bayesian modeling (e.g. Stan or other), and neural networks (PyTorch or Tensorflow). Experience with cognitive modeling and/or behavioral data analysis is a plus.
Graduate students or post-graduate individuals with substantial research experience are preferred, though motivated undergraduates with cognitive and/or computational modeling experience will be seriously considered, as will individuals with primarily industry or independent experience.
To Apply
Submit your application using the provided link or visit us on our careers page at nwea.org. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Applications should include the following:
About Us
The NWEA™ Summer Research Internship Program introduces outstanding doctoral and undergraduate 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, professional development that fosters educators’ ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation. To better inform instruction and maximize every learner’s academic growth, educators currently use NWEA assessments with nearly eight million students.
NWEA strives to make diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices the center of our work. Our organization’s mission, Partnering to Help All Kids Learn, is the foundation for our DEIA commitment as we work to reflect, value, and support the educators, students, colleagues, and communities we serve. We seek to empower and engage all stakeholders in the research, services,solutions,and products we provide, our organizational culture, and the partnerships we establish with schools, districts, states, and countries.