Opportunities

Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences is launching a special issue on The Use of Test Scores in Secondary Analysis in order to promote an inter-disciplinary dialogue between scholars who design the psychometric models used to estimate latent skills and researchers that use these data to investigate policy-relevant questions related to skills formation, skill utilization and returns to skill.

The Ithaca College Education Department invites applications for the position of Department Chair and Associate Professor. This full-time position begins August 16, 2020 (or earlier in the summer, if desired). The position entails leadership of a growing department that offers undergraduate degrees in secondary education and art education K-12, and masters in secondary, childhood and agriculture education, as well as a robust education studies minor.

The Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University invites applications for a postdoctoral Research Fellow to begin in fall 2020. Incumbent will have to conduct and publish original quantitative research in partnership with New Orleans Public Schools, the New Orleans Early Education Network, and the community advisory board.

The Assembly is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online publication housed in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The goal of The Assembly is to promote public scholarship that is written in a clear, accessible manner to wide audiences. The intended audience is any stakeholders in education

Outcomes and Causal Inference in International Comparative Assessment European Training Network (OCCAM-ETN) has launched a blog site with the aim to disseminate research related to international large-scale assessments, such as PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, and ICCS.

SRI International is seeking a Director for its Center for Education Research & Innovation division. SRI International is a non-profit organisation aiming to create solutions to tackle with the most important problems in the education sector. It seeks for a leader that will contribute to the long-term success of its research and support programs.

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking for a tenure track Assistant Professor in the area of Early Childhood Education with candidates possessing research interest and experience in early childhood education.

The Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership (EMPL), in the University of Oregon’s College of Education (COE), is seeking for an Associate Professor. This position is a tenure-line faculty position with the requirement for incumbent to have expertise in systems that support effective measurement of educational practices, or data analytic and data science techniques that can use technological methods to effectively gauge such practices.

The paper submission deadline for the 6th PIAAC International Conference is approaching fast. All interested candidates for participating in the conference and presenting their papers must submit their paper abstracts latest by October 30th, 2019.