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At ACT, Your Work Makes a Difference
Education has power – a power that changes lives forever. It creates opportunities that lift up individuals, their families, and sparks societal change that echoes through generations to come. From our grassroots we have fought the good fight for equity in education, and we remain devoted to helping anyone who struggles to access that power. This is what matters to us and we must do better -- we’ve never been more sure of our purpose.
ACT team members are part of an organization dedicated to an important mission: Helping people achieve education and workplace success. Advancing the mission internally, by helping team members achieve education and workplace success of their own, is core to our values. ACT values a diverse workplace and is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable environment in which every team member has an opportunity to grow.
We are seeking a Summer Research Intern for a Validity and Efficacy Research internship opportunity.
Location: This is a remote internship.
Duration: The internship is scheduled to run from Monday June 9, 2025 to Friday August 15, 2025, but can be flexible for the right candidate.
Pay Rate: For this position, we anticipate offering an hourly rate of $23.00. The position is not incentive not benefits eligible.
Work Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Central Time
The summer research intern will work within the ACT Academic Knowledge Measurement. Specifically the intern will work in the Validity and Efficacy Research group. The Validity and Efficacy Research group specializes in investigating and documenting the value of ACT products by researching the appropriateness of their proposed uses as well as their effectiveness in improving intended learner outcomes. The mission in Research is to establish ACT’s authority as a trusted leader in the field of educational research and to use this expertise and knowledge to increase the efficacy and equity of our products and solutions. The team in Research consists of researchers in psychometrics, validity and efficacy, artificial intelligence and machine learning, survey methodology, social and emotional learning (SEL), and industrial-organizational psychology. Candidates will be remote for the 10-week duration of the internship.
The summer intern will work on the following study this year. The study proposes to isolate and quantify the specific impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on high school grade inflation and subsequent college performance. Unlike prior studies that broadly compare academic metrics across time or rely solely on regression-based analyses, this study will employ a difference-in-differences (DiD) design to isolate the causal impact of the pandemic. The DiD approach creates a more robust counterfactual by comparing pre- and post-pandemic cohorts, effectively controlling for underlying trends that are unrelated to COVID-19. This design allows us to identify the exogenous shock of the pandemic on grade inflation and assess how these altered practices affect key outcomes, such as first-year college GPA, enrollment, persistence, and graduation rates, beyond what standard pre- and post-comparisons offer.
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When ACT was founded in 1959, it disrupted the assessment industry with a new approach to helping students better understand their readiness so they could take steps to improve it. By leveraging our expertise and authority in assessment and research, we will again disrupt the industry—helping more people learn, better measure their progress, and improve their navigation through life’s transitions.
More than ever before, ACT is fulfilling its mission of helping people achieve education and workplace success. We’re doing it by pushing the boundaries of learning innovation through the work of our people, who we call team members because we’re all in this together.
We know transformation does not come without challenge. That’s why ACT invests in a variety of experiences for team members to strengthen their connections, explore ideas, learn from customers, and celebrate success.
Learn more about working at ACT at act.org!
ACT is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. ACT values diversity in people and ideas and participates in E-verify. ACT's online position announcements are intended only to provide general descriptions of employment opportunities; none of the information provided for any position should be interpreted as a commitment by ACT to specific terms and conditions for employment.
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