Data Analysis, SPSS, Excel, PowerPoint, Research

Chelsea M. Eddington

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A: *** ** St. Pittsburgh, PA 15201 • E: *.*.*********@*****.***• P: 570-***-****

EXPERIENCE

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA (Jan. 2007 – present)

Research Assistant

• Expert in all aspects of research including research design, participant recruitment, data

analysis, and write-up/communication

• Managed and mentored over 16 undergraduate researchers

• Served as lab coordinator for two research labs

• Developed web-based surveys to collect normative data

• Presented research at international conferences

• Three publications in peer reviewed journals, two of which are first authored

• Developed language learning paradigms

• Organizer for the 2012 Second Language Research Forum, a major international

conference

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Aug. 2009 – April 2014)

Teaching Assistant/ Instructor

• Taught three independent courses and four independent labs

• Developed materials and assessments for courses

• Teaching assistant mentor for the graduate students in the Department of Psychology

University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (June – July 2009)

Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Research Intern

• Analyzed data on the project entitled “Learning ESL Vocabulary with Context and

Definitions: Order Effects and Self-Generation.”

• Developed a scoring rubric to assess learners performance

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (expected Aug. 2015), M.S. (April 2011) University of

Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

• Department of Psychology and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

• Selected Awards: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Language

Learning Dissertation Grant

B.Phil. (April, 2009), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

• Department of Psychology, Honors, Summa cum laude, GPA: 3.821

• Certificate in German, Concentration in Cognitive Science, Minor in Studio Arts

SKILLS

• Software: SPSS, R, Qualtrics, E-prime, Excel, Word,

PowerPoint

• Languages: English – native speaker, German -

proficient

Languages: English – native speaker, German -

conversantLanguage: Inte German

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