DOCTORAL 2010 - Post-Doctoral Research Associate Department of Social Science & Policy Studies Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Category DOCTORAL 2010

Deadline: October 30, 2010 | Date: October 30, 2010

Venue/Country: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-07-27 03:49:50 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Department of Social Science & Policy Studies

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Position Description: Full time position available in educational

data mining/science inquiry/motivation research, working with

Dr. Janice Gobert and Dr. Ryan Baker. Researcher will study how the

relationship between student individual differences and learning is

mediated by disengaged behaviors within the Science Assistments

project, an intelligent tutoring system for middle school students'

inquiry in science. WPI currently provides and supports this system

for middle schools in the Central Massachusetts area and is developing

and implementing assessments for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and

Geoscience.

Information about the project team can be found at

http://users.wpi.edu/~sci_assistments

Principal duties and responsibilities:

Conduct field observations of student disengagement

Use educational data mining methods to develop detectors of disengaged

behaviors

Programmatically analyze and distill log files of student internaction

Utilize questionnaire measures of student individiual differences

Assist in other types of data collectioin and analysis

Assist in developing project documents and papers

Assist in developing and maintaining relationships with teachers and

school administrators

Other duties as assigned

Requirements: A graduate degree in Learning Sciences, Computer

Science, Education, Science Education, Mathematics or related area,

with research background in educational data mining, web usage mining

or log analysis, motivation, and/or disengagement

Excellent people skills are essential in order to interact with

project team consisting of software engineers, teachers, graduate

students and school administrators

Excellent time management skills

Ability to work in Massachusetts schools

* Initial length of appointment is 2 years. May be extended upon

successful performance and availability of funding for a third year.

To enrich education through diversity, WPI is an affirmative action,

equal opportunity employer.

A Member of the Colleges of Worcester Consortium

To apply, go to WPI's website

https://wpi.peopleadmin.com/

and search for Faculty/Research positions.

Please contact Janice Gobert, jgobertwpi.edu

with any questions.