Senior Efficacy Research and Psychometrics Analyst

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💵 $137.9k - $155.1k / year

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Khan Academy Türkçe

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

📚 Education

Education

Khan Academy Türkçe is a free educational platform, offering thousands of instructional videos and interactive exercises in Turkish. It serves as both a personal learning resource and a classroom educational tool, covering a wide range of subjects including mathematics, science, computer science, arts, and humanities. The platform caters to all educational levels from elementary to university and emphasizes personalized learning with a vast library that continues to grow as more content is translated into Turkish. Khan Academy Türkçe aims to provide world-class education to anyone, anywhere, without cost, and is utilized by millions of students and teachers across Turkey.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical side of psychometrics and efficacy research for Khan Academy Kids assessments and learning content • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for external psychometric research partners • Support study design, data sharing, psychometric analyses, and interpretation of findings • Extract, clean, and securely share assessment data with research partners on a recurring schedule • Analyze item difficulty, score distributions, growth analyses, concurrent validity, and IRT-based scoring • Translate research findings into product improvements, including scoring models and assessment discontinuation rules • Develop and publish technical documentation, beginning with the technical manual for the PreK assessment • Recruit and onboard school and district sites for psychometric and efficacy studies • Execute MOUs, align on consent procedures and participant incentives, and coordinate site visits for direct child assessment data collection • Partner with legal to draft and negotiate data-sharing agreements • Coordinate Khan Academy Kids’ participation in ongoing efficacy studies and contribute to future study design • Build and maintain the Khan Academy Kids KPI dashboard with engineering, including App Store Connect and Google Play Console integrations • Prepare monthly and quarterly business reviews, periodic target setting, and recurring app performance reporting • Handle ad hoc SQL data requests for targeted district outreach and grant reporting • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, academic experts, and external research organizations

🎯 Requirements

• An advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in psychometrics, educational measurement, quantitative methods or a related field — or equivalent applied experience • Strong grounding in psychometric methods, including item analysis, reliability and validity evidence, growth modeling, and Item Response Theory (IRT) • Proficiency with SQL and a statistical programming language (e.g., R or Python) for extracting, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data • Experience with (or eagerness to learn) business intelligence tools such as Looker, and comfort building dashboards and data pipelines • Familiarity with responsible data-sharing practices in education research, including student data privacy considerations (e.g., FERPA, COPPA) and work with pseudonymized and deidentified data • Excellent communication skills: able to translate complex psychometric findings into clear implications for product teams, funders, and school partners • Strong project-management and organizational skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple external partners, recurring deliverables, and data-sharing schedules with close attention to detail • Proven cross-cultural competency skills, demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of others, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization • Motivated by Khan Academy’s mission “to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere” • Experience with (or strong interest in) early childhood education and assessment of young learners is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries • Ample paid time off as needed – Your well-being is a priority • 8 pre-scheduled Wellness Days in 2026 occurring on a Monday or a Friday for a 3-day weekend boost • Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone, with open flexibility as needed, at times • Generous parental leave • An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best • The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education • Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups • 401(k) + 4% matching • Comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life