EOP Research Scholar

The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) is dedicated to solving education's greatest challenges. Through rigorous research, model training programs, and partnerships with educators worldwide, we pursue equitable, accessible, and effective learning for all.

The Educational Opportunity Project (EOP), housed within the GSE, is dedicated to measuring educational opportunity in every community in America and has built the most comprehensive national database of academic performance in the U.S., based on over 500 million test scores. We hope that researchers will use the data to generate evidence about what policies and contexts are most effective at increasing educational opportunity, and that such evidence will inform educational policy and practices. For more information about our work and team, visit edopportunity.org.

Position Summary

The Educational Opportunity Project (EOP), housed in the Graduate School of Education, is seeking a Research Scholar to support new work developing and analyzing a novel database of kindergarten readiness assessment data.

The Research Scholar will work closely with the Executive and Faculty Directors of the EOP to develop code to clean, organize, and harmonize data from large longitudinal education datasets; to implement statistical estimation methods; and to analyze data for research publications. This position requires independent work as well as collaboration with the EOP team. Significant experience using Stata, a strong statistical background, and careful attention to detail is critical for this role.

The initial appointment will be a 1-year fixed term, with renewal contingent on performance and project needs. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

The expected pay range for this position is $93,000 to $148,000 per annum. Stanford University provides a pay range representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for the position. The pay offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors including experience and qualifications.

Core Duties

• Extract and clean data from a variety of sources, including state departments of education and the federal government, and maintain its accuracy and completeness.
• Build replicable and efficient software code for data cleaning and estimation.
• Create documentation for all code and analyses.
• Perform complex statistical analyses and develop graphs and tables for publication and presentation.
• Conceptualize and draft research papers.
• Collaborate with other EOP researchers and collaborators.

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