Research Assistant

1 day ago

Singapore Nanyang Technological University Full time

Office of Education Research (OER)


Project Title: Beginning Early: SingaPore’s Ongoing Study starting in Infancy of Twenty-first-century-skills, Individual differences, and Variance in the Environment (BE POSITIVE study)

Project Introduction: The Centre for Research in Child Development (CRCD) at National Institute of Education (NIE) is looking for a knowledgeable and creative expert in programming and development to assist with the BE POSITIVE study. The Developer will have the opportunity to assist with computerized experiments, programming/maintaining the REDCap database and programming/maintaining questionnaires hosted via REDCap and/or Qualtrics database.

Beginning Early: SingaPore’s Ongoing Study starting in Infancy of Twenty-first-century-skills, Individual differences, and Variance in the Environment (BE POSITIVE study)

is a collaboration with Singhealth Polyclinics and involves more than 14 research scientists and clinicians. As such, the Developer will have the opportunity to interact with people from a variety of backgrounds, and will also work closely with the overall study PI. BE POSITIVE’s primary goal is to better examine the interaction between home and school influences upon child development and academic success, starting in ages 0-4. Data sources will include computerized testing, questionnaires, and video/audio data.

**Requirements**:

- Degree in Data Science/Life Sciences/Computer Science/Public Health/Neurocognition or related field with an expertise and/or keen interest in current computer hardware and software
- Team player - To work with a large enthusiastic team with Principal Investigators, Clinical Research Coordinators and project managers
- Strong communication skills
- Proactive, willing to learn, and able to multi-task
- Eye for detail and identifying problems
- Creativity is a plus.
- Passion
- Ability to use one or more development language (C++, PHP, HTML, etc.)/ programming language (R, PHP, SQL, etc) will be a plus.
- Professional experience using MS Office tools (proficiency in excel preferred).

**Responsibilities**:

- Database (REDCap / Electronic Data Capture (EDC) systems)
- Entry, programming, and monitoring of the database (Familiarity with REDCap database will be a plus point)
- Ensure overall quality of data for assigned studies by programming rules and validation checks
- Program and test the databases/rules/validations in accordance with programming standards and validation procedures.
- Developing and programming scoring systems via EDC systems
- Creating individualized reports
- Programming/maintaining questionnaires
- Maintaining the database & troubleshooting any issues
- Monitoring and Editing/Developing computerized/eye tracking tasks
- Documentation
- Keeping records of any issues and how it was resolved
- Others
- Writing and coding individual programmes / scripts
- Provide technical expertise working with various cross-functional internal and external teams involved in data collection, entry, transfer and extraction
- Regular report on the status of the study and the collected data.
- Attend meetings and address enquiries related to database
- Any other tasks assigned by PI

Application

Closing Date

Closing date for advertisements will be set to 28 calendar days from date of posting.

Other Information

Hiring Institution: NIE

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