WIDA offers summer research internships in language assessment to graduate students. Interns will participate in WIDA assessment research projects and collaborate with WIDA researchers on projects that address academic language development in the K-12 context.
About the Assessment Team
The WIDA Assessment Team pursues a validation research agenda that supports the WIDA suite of language assessments, including WIDA ACCESS, WIDA Screener and WIDA MODEL. Interns may contribute to various aspects of this research agenda, such as study design, data collection and analyses, manuscript/report authoring and review, and presentation of findings. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods projects may be assigned to interns, depending on the background of qualified applicants. Interested applicants may also participate in test development activities, such as content reviews. Specific projects will be assigned to each intern, based on individual interests and strengths at the beginning of the internship. Interns have enjoyed opportunities to co-present with WIDA researchers at conferences and to co-publish their work in the field.
In some cases, depending on the needs of specific research projects, interns may be invited to continue contributing to their assigned project after the completion of the summer internship. Such opportunities for extended compensated work are optional for interns and shall not extend beyond the end of the same calendar year nor exceed a total of 100 hours.