Announcement for Temporary Research Technician Position in Literacy Education

Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences

The University of Tennessee

Developing Multisyllabic Decoding and Encoding Skills for Upper Elementary Learners is a project funded by Reading Reimagined, which is an inclusive Research and Development (R&D) program under the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF). AERDF is a national nonprofit initiative that pursues breakthrough outcomes in student learning, well-being, and opportunity.

Project's Purpose: It is critical that students in the upper elementary grades have access to high quality, evidence-based instruction to read and write big words in order to be skilled readers and writers as they progress through school and to ensure later life success and career-readiness. Utilizing Design-Based Research methodologies and through a collaboration with upper elementary learners, teachers, and community experts, the project will develop and evaluate the effects of instructional components on students' decoding, encoding, sentence production, fluency and their confidence to read.

Project Leaders: The project is led by Professors Zoi A. Traga Philippakos and Margaret Quinn and consists of a dynamic team of student researchers and partners.

Position: We seek a researcher to further the research and development work of the project. This position will provide opportunities for a junior researcher to contribute to the project's goals while developing a range of research skills. Specifically, this individual will support the evaluation, selection, development of resources, will delivery instruction, collect data, organize data, work on analysis and writing of reports.

This position is a full-time appointment with salary commensurate with experience (MR05) and includes health insurance. The position is for one year, contingent upon mutual agreement and satisfactory performance after six months.