About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. The company has won government funding to research how schools can identify special educational needs earlier and more fairly in pupils who are learning English as an additional language, and this role will lead the analysis for a twelve-month study.
Responsibilities
- Audit historical pupil records
- Count the usable sample
- Lodge the first analysis plan
- Build first comparison profiles
- Design scoring for new pupil tasks
- Fix scoring and selection rules
- Build the pipeline for incoming task data
- Revise scoring after a speech and language therapist’s fairness review
- Test whether platform data improves on a simple baseline
- Lodge the confirmatory plan
- Set the threshold for professional review
- Measure agreement between reviewers
- Run one final evaluation on reserved schools
- Analyse results by home language, year group and starting level
- Write the methods, findings and limitations for the final report
- Work with an independent measurement specialist, the lead educational psychologist, the development team and the research project manager
- Report to the Chief Technology Officer
Requirements
- A postgraduate degree in psychometrics, statistics, quantitative psychology, educational measurement or a similar field, or equivalent experience
- Hands-on IRT experience: calibration, scoring, scale linking and DIF
- Longitudinal or multilevel modelling that accounts for measurement error
- Experience evaluating a screening tool or classifier
- Reproducible analysis in R or Python, under version control
- Experience writing an analysis plan before seeing results, keeping to it and reporting null results plainly
- Clear writing for teachers, funders and other non-specialists
- Experience working with pseudonymised personal data
Nice to have:
- Experience with educational or language assessment data, or computer adaptive testing
- Experience with learning curve or knowledge tracing models
- Experience with SEND, EAL or dynamic assessment
- Experience with fairness analysis on small samples
- SQL or document database skills
Important Details
- Schedule: four days a week
- Work format: hybrid or remote within the UK
- Contract: fixed term to 30 September 2027
- Start date: December 2026, or by January 2027 at the latest
