Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech¿s faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation¿s top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech¿s Mission and Values

Georgia Tech¿s mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Atlanta, GA

The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) is a unit of the Division of Lifetime Learning at Georgia Tech. Since 1991, CEISMC has served as the primary connection point between Georgia Tech faculty and students and the preK-12 STEM education community.

CEISMC played a key role in achieving the vision set forth in the Commission on Creating the Next (CNE) report by reducing the barriers between preK-12 and higher education. By offering intensive, innovative professional development to practicing teachers, creating highly engaging in-school and extracurricular STEM experiences for K-12 students, and conducting research on effective STEM education practices, we strive to improve STEM teaching and learning in Georgia and improve the pipeline of students ready to excel in STEM fields.

Annually, CEISMC programs impact more than 62,000 students and 3,500 teachers in over 99 school districts throughout the state of Georgia. CEISMC achieves this through research, intensive teacher professional development, advancements in pedagogy, school and community outreach, and sustainable partnerships. The unit works closely with public and private stakeholders to expand the reach of the Institute's STEM education efforts in urban communities near Georgia Tech as well as those in rural school districts throughout the state of Georgia.

The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology invites applicants for Research Associate I position in Research and Evaluation. Applicants will be considered at single rank. The position requires prior experience in educational research as well as experience in interfacing with K-12 educational constituents. In particular, the position requires experience in educational program evaluation, specifically collecting and analyzing educational data and in analyzing issues related to K-12 STEM education policies, and strong experience in educational program management. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to collection of qualitative and quantitative data, analysis, reporting and publishing.

The Research Associate I will complete the following duties:

• Assist the CEISMC lead evaluators with needed program evaluation duties: Monitor program milestones; set up meetings with stakeholders, develop tools for evaluation, tabulate results, collect data, maintain databases etc.
• Conduct related literature reviews.
• Collect qualitative and quantitative data for evaluation projects, including surveys, interviewing, field observations, focus groups.
• Coordinate data collection efforts.
• Maintain communication with evaluation data collectors on an ongoing basis to maintain data quality.

Bachelor's degree in social science, education, or related area

Master degree preferred, with emphasis on program evaluation, and policy implementation in STEM education, as well as strong project management skills. The position requires prior experience in educational research as well as experience in interfacing with K-12 educational constituents. In particular, the position requires experience in educational program evaluation, specifically collecting and analyzing educational data and in analyzing issues related to K-12 STEM education policies, and strong experience in educational program management.

• Experience with qualitative research methods: instrument development.
• Experience with survey research methods: questionnaire development/testing, survey administration/management.
• Familiarity with educational research methods including mixed methodology, program evaluation.
• Experience with GADOE data systems and their use in evaluation.
• Experience evaluating STEM related K-12 activities/programs.
• Experience working with K-12 students as well as adult learners.
• Working knowledge of online survey creation tools.
• Working knowledge of the RTOP observation instrument.
• Experience publishing research and evaluation findings in presenting at conferences.
• Experience preparing Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications.
• A Masters degree in social science, education, or related field.
• More than two years professional related experience.
• Extremely detail-oriented in the management of several complex projects.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel and SPSS.

Requests for information may be directed to Dr. Meltem Alemdar, meltem.alemdar@ceismc.gatech.edu.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

This position is full-time. Research Associates in CEISMC are dependent on sponsored research. All employment and assignments are ultimately contingent upon continued sponsored funding.

Applicants should submit a letter of application and curriculum vitae. Application materials should be submitted as .PDF files via Careers job ID 272254.The search will continue until the posting is closed on May 28, 2024.

The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening.