Position: Summer 2025 Psychometric Internship

Description: 

The American Board of Internal Medicine is pleased to announce its summer psychometric internship program for 2025. The ABIM psychometric internship program is an eight-week summer internship running from Monday, June 2nd to Friday, July 25th in Philadelphia. During the program, each intern will take primary ownership of an applied psychometric research project under the guidance of one of the ABIM’s psychometricians. In addition, the internship curriculum includes instructional lectures and opportunities for the interns to gain applied operational experience. As ABIM is the nation’s largest physician certification organization, interns will gain experience with issues unique to professional testing organizations.

Qualifications:

• Doctoral student in an educational measurement (or related field) program with at least two years of coursework completed by the start of the internship
• Preference will be given to applicants who have experience with item response theory
• Ideal candidates will have experience with programming in SAS or R
• Excellent communication skills
• Interest in certification testing
• Eligible to be legally employed in the United States

Stipend:

• The ABIM provides a total of $12,000 for the eight-week internship program. This total includes an $10,000 stipend as well as a $2,000 housing allowance.

Dates:

• Application Deadline: February 3, 2025

Additional details can be found within the ABIM Internship Announcement. Applications, in the form of a curriculum vitae and a letter of interest, should be sent to Michele Johnson, Research Program Manager (researchintern@abim.org).

Position: Research & Applied Psychometrics Internship

Description: 

The Ascend Learning Innovative Learning and Assessment Solutions (ILAS) division has remote opportunities for Research & Applied Psychometrics interns for the summer of 2025. As a member of our team, you will work alongside experienced psychometricians to  conduct research and psychometric work on operational testing products designed for the allied health, nursing, and fitness industries. The interns will have the opportunity to gain operational work experience and conduct a research project in the following areas: Exam design and development, Exam security and forensic analysis, Job task analysis/exam blueprint design, Standard setting, Implementation of AI and machine learning models in product development, and Efficacy Research.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience

• Current enrollment in a relevant doctoral program such as educational measurement, psychometrics, quantitative psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, statistics, experimental psychology, or computer science/machine learning.
• Completion of at least 2 years of coursework toward the doctoral program prior to the start of the internship.

Key Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency in SAS, R, Python or WINSTEPS is recommended.
• Excellent presentation, organizational, time management skills with attention to details and deadlines.
• Ability to compose research proposals for submission to peer-reviewed conferences under supervision.
• Ability to work remotely, but effectively as a member of a team.

Stipend:

• $9,600 total for the 8 weeks (40 hours/week)
• Ascend Learning will fund the national conference registration and major travel costs (e.g., hotel and flight) aligned with company travel policy when the research project is accepted for the conference presentation. 

Dates:

• Internship Period: 8 weeks (40 hours/week), June 2, 2025 – July 25, 2025

Additional details, as well as the application form, can be found in Ascend Learning's job posting. 

The Center for Assessment plans to release a call for its 2025 Summer Internship Program in Educational Assessment and Accountability in December, 2025. 

Position: Psychometric Externship 

Description (Summary):

Cognia is granting up to two (2) externships (i.e., remote internships) for students working toward PhDs in appropriate graduate study programs. The primary focus of the program centers around an appropriate research project that each student chooses in consultation with Cognia psychometricians and researchers.

The externships are targeted for students whose interests focus on psychometric or measurement issues such as equating, item calibration, statistical models, response time, dimensionality issues, and scaling. For example, recent years have included projects on evaluating raters of open-response items, diagnosing student misconceptions on open-response items, modeling response time behavior, detecting unusual item response behavior in alternate assessments, detection of item parameter drift, and accuracy of routing in multistage tests.

An additional important component of the externship program is to help students gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of the daily activities of Cognia psychometricians via a series of seminars that give a systematic deep dive into our psychometric practices.

Qualifications:

• Current enrollment in a relevant doctoral program.
• Completion of at least 2 years of coursework toward the doctorate prior to the internship program start date.
• Currently residing in the United States.

Stipend:

• The full compensation package includes a stipend, as well as transportation, accommodation, and meals during the Extern Festival Week.
• Stipend: $7000
  

Dates:

• Application Deadline: December 8th, 2024
• Decision date: On or before January 17th, 2025
• Externship starts February 3rd, 2025. The duration is 14 weeks with an end date of May 9th, 2025
• Extern Festival Week: One week duration sometime in March or April 2025 when externs travel to Cognia offices for in-person networking and seminars. Exact dates to be determined based on extern availability.

Apply online through Congia's LinkedIn Posting.

Edmentum plans to release a call for a 2025 Psychometric Summer Internship in January or February, 2025. 

Position: Internship in Educational Measurement

Description: 

Interns are employed at HumRRO’s Corporate Headquarters in Alexandria, VA or in one of the remote offices depending on the available work. Internship tasks typically include literature review, synthesis, and analysis; survey and other instrument development and administration; and documentation of findings. HumRRO is looking for responsible, motivated team players with strong technical and communication skills to assist in our contract research activities. HumRRO project directors will provide technical supervision and mentoring to help make the most of each intern’s exposure to and experience with our applied research setting.

Additional benefits: In addition to their regular salary, all interns will also receive a housing stipend, PTO, and paid vacation days.

Each applicant must provide:

• A curriculum vitae/detailed resume
• A one-page personal statement of career goals and internship interests
• Official transcript(s) of all graduate work
• Contact information for two references (letters of recommendation are not needed)
• Completed Statistical Packages and Data Analysis Questionnaire (link on website below)

Application Due Date: Application materials due January 15, 2025

Applications should be emailed to: internship@humrro.org

Contact: For more information: https://www.humrro.org/corpsite/internships/

Position: Remote 2025 Summer Internship: Psychometrics and Data Science

Description:

NBME invites applications for multiple full-time remote internship positions for the Summer of 2025. Over an 8-week period, interns will have the opportunity to collaborate with NBME staff and interact with fellow graduate students as they complete a research project. The expected deliverable is an internal research presentation. Specific projects for the summer of 2025 will be discussed with applicants as part of the interview process.

Qualifications:

• Active enrollment in a doctoral program in measurement, statistics, computer science, cognitive science, medical education, or related field.
• Completion of at least one year of your PhD program by Summer 2025.
• Experience or coursework in one or more of the following: statistics, measurement theory, natural language processing, data science, research design, IRT, and test development.
• Working knowledge of statistical software (e.g., R, Python, C#).
• Interns will be assigned to one or more mentors and must be able to work independently.
• Must be authorized to work in the US for any employer. If selected, F-1 holders will need to apply for Curricular Practical Training authorization through their school's international student office and have a social security number for payroll purposes.
• Must be eligible to work June 2-July 25, 2025. We are unable to shift the timeline of the internship program.
• Must not have any competing employment throughout the duration of the internship.
• Must be available between NBME core hours (10am-3pm Eastern Time).
   

Compensation: $45 per hour, amounting to a total stipend of $12,600 (35 hours per week). Additionally, all interns are eligible to receive up to $1,000 to support their attendance at a conference. This is not conditional on presenting at the conference.

Dates:  The deadline for applications is Friday, January 31, 2025. Applicants will be informed of final decisions by Friday, February 28, 2025.

Link to apply: https://nbme.applicantpro.com/jobs/3562778

NCES and AIR plan to release an announcement for their 2025 NAEP Doctoral Student Internship in December, 2025. See details on this forthcoming announcement below.

Position: NAEP Doctoral Student Internship 

Description:

Work directly with researchers and data scientists from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and American Institutes for Research (AIR) on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) research. This 10-week internship program is aimed at current doctoral students in educational research, statistics, information science, sociology, psychology, economics, computer science, or other related fields.

Internship Goals:

Contribute to the NAEP program by engaging in innovative education research using NAEP data in topic areas such as psychometrics and statistical methods, process data, policy-relevant research, re-envisioning quantitative information (data visualization), and artificial intelligence (AI). 
Advance secondary analysis and methodological 
developments using data from NAEP.

Internship Details

• Paid 10-week program (starting early June 2025)
• Remote work within the U.S. with some travel to Arlington, VA
• Receive an AIR-issued laptop for project work
   

Join the NAEP Research and Development (R&D) Program mailing list by filling out this form, and you will receive any updates about our program, including application release date.

Position: Research Intern - STAC (Sociotechnical Alignment Center)

Description (Summary): 

The Sociotechnical Alignment Center (STAC) is a team of researchers, applied scientists, and linguists in Microsoft Research (MSR) who represent part of the research pillar of Microsoft’s Responsible AI efforts. Founded within Microsoft Research in 2022, STAC’s mission is to guide the sociotechnical alignment of AI systems, with a particular emphasis on measuring risks, capabilities, performance, and other properties of these systems.

STAC is looking to hire several Research Interns in Redmond and NYC to conduct research on measuring risks, capabilities, performance, and other properties of AI systems, with a focus on “generative” or “general purpose” systems. STAC’s approach to evaluation is grounded in measurement theory from the social sciences and in statistics. STAC is especially interested in candidates with expertise in theoretical and methodological approaches that can be applied to help advance and mature the field of AI system evaluation. Prior experience with AI system evaluation specifically is not required. We especially encourage applications from candidates interested in topics including but not limited to: applications of methodologies from psychometrics and educational testing to the design and validation of evaluations (including methods such as item response theory, factor analysis, and other latent variable models); measurement theory from the social sciences; reliability of generative AI systems and generative AI system evaluation; validity of generative AI system evaluation; improving human and automated annotation methods for use in evaluation; participatory methods in measurement (including how different stakeholders interpret/work with/set goals for AI system measurement).

Preferred and Required Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a relevant PhD program.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct original research.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with other researchers and product development teams.
• Proficient interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration.
• Ability to think unconventionally to derive creative and innovative solutions.
   

Stipend:

• The base pay range for this internship is USD $6,550 - $12,880 per month. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $8,480 - $13,920 per month.

Application Deadline: December 18th, 2024, with applications accepted until all positions are filled

For additional detail, and to apply online, see Microsoft's job posting.