Careers Job Description
General Description
Project Overview
Case Studies on Authentic Assessment in UPK Citywide: Perspectives on Utility, Fidelity, and Applications to Practice Project is a research study funded by the Foundation of Child Development that aims to foreground UPK teachers’ perspectives on how authentic assessment systems (Teaching Strategies Gold, Work Sampling, and High Scope Child Observation Record) influence daily classroom practices, decisions made about curriculum and lesson planning, and the teachers’ use of assessment to develop comprehensive understandings of children’s individual needs and interests.
Job Summary
We are currently seeking research assistants to carry out research procedures including recruitment, survey administration, interviewing participants, and conducting classroom observations.
Other Duties
- Required travel to UPK programs across the metropolitan areas of New York (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens)
- Availability between 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, 2-3 days/week
- Conduct interviews with participants
- Transcribe audio recordings of interviews
- Carry out classroom observations and record interactions between teachers and children, along with children and their peers
- Attend meetings to discuss the study’s progress, issues that come up in the field, and emerging findings
Qualifications
- Has studied Early Childhood Education, or related field (e.g. Family Studies, other areas in Education, Social Work, Development Psychology)
- Experience teaching or working in preschool or early care and education settings desired, or is interested in learning more about early childhood curriculum and assessment
- Fluent Spanish required
- Knowledge of research methodologies, data collection and maintenance
- Good interpersonal skills, organizational skills, as well as attention to details
- Team Player
- Skilled at prioritizing multiple tasks, and conducting follow up
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume or CV.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Part Time
Depends on Qualifications
Nov 14, 2017 (Or Until Filled)