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Research Assistant

About Candidate

I am researcher with experience conducting educational and psychological studies in academic and industry contexts. Throughout my career, I have been growing my skills in data cleaning and analysis, literature review and synthesis, survey constuction and collection, and human-subject interviewing.

Salary
USD
Nationality
American
Looking for Job Title
Research Assistant, Research Associate, Researcher, Data Analyst

Location

Education

B
B.A. in Psychology 2020
West Virginia University

Minor in Religious Studies Emphasis in applied behavior analysis

Work & Experience

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Research Assistant Febuary 2023 - September 2025
Waterford Research Institute

I worked with the research team to perform a variety of research and analysis tasks for Waterford.org, an educational nonprofit providing early learning reading and math programs. Among these tasks, I 1) Collected student assessment data (both from in-person testing methods and extraction from databases), cleaned data, and quantitatively analyzed results (using SPSS, Excel, and Power BI); 2) Created surveys (item text and logic), wrote focus group protocols, and conducted remote usability testing sessions, performing qualitative analysis of feedback afterward; 3) Collaborated with the team to write reports of our research for publication to peer-reviewed journals, presentation to industry conferences, and for internal white papers -- involving literature reviews utilizing reference management software (i.e., Zotero); and 4) Composed documentation needed for IRB approval and compliance, including protocol overviews and consent forms.

Skills

Microsoft Office (i.e., Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
Microsoft Power BI
IBM SPSS
Zotero Reference Manager
Mendeley Reference Manager
Alchemer Survey Platform
SurveyMonkey Survey Platform
Zoom Video Conferencing
Atlassian Confluence & Jira
Google Office Suite