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Oxana Rosca

Oxana Rosca

Research Assistant
Albany,NY

Summary

Ph.D. candidate trained in educational psychology, measurement, and statistics with expertise in data analysis and research in education. Specializes in test development, evaluation, and validation. Reliable individual, smart and committed to job well done and offering exceptional drive. Organized and dependable, successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Research Assistant

DAACS Research Group, SUNY Research Foundation
Albany, United States
09.2021 - Current
  • Utilized advanced analytical software RStudio to perform statistical quantitative, qualitative, and psychometric analyses for the Project “Examining the Efficacy, Predictive Power, and Cost Effectiveness of the Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement of College Skills (DAACS)” funded by the grant of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
  • Cleaned and prepared data sets for item analyses.
  • Identified poor and well-performing items via CTT and IRT analyses and informed the further development of the scales.
  • Ran test validity studies (internal structure, convergent, discriminant, predictive, and concurrent validity, and reliability) on four DAACS assessments: math, reading, writing, and self-regulated learning skills. Used factor analyses, differential item functioning, and regression analyses.
  • Documented all analytical procedures, created reports, and presented the results, including a presentation at NCME Annual Meeting 2023.

Graduate Student Intern Data Analyst

NYS Office For People With Developmental Disabilities
Albany, NY
05.2019 - 01.2022
  • Completed and reported quantitative research using multiple regression analysis, missing data analysis, and multiple imputation in SPSS.
  • Generated reports detailing findings and recommendations.
  • Maintained database systems and visualizations to track, describe, and analyze operational data.

Graduate Assistant

University At Albany - SUNY
Albany, NY
08.2018 - 05.2021
  • Provided comprehensive research assistance and support when designing and executing research studies.
  • Ran statistical analyses using structural equation modelling (in Mplus) to test measurement invariance and latent factors' relationships with cognitive and non-cognitive scores of four-year-old participants of the Head Start program.
  • Conducted influence-statistic analysis using SPSS for a study on teenagers' deviant behavior.

Instructor

University At Albany - SUNY
Albany, NY
01.2021 - 08.2022
  • Taught EPSY250, Research in Human Development
  • Increased student participation via engaging lectures and assignments.
  • Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.
  • Tracked student progress, frequently checking in with struggling students and identifying root causes of problems.
  • Applied various teaching aids to minimize learning gaps and instruct and motivate students.
  • Assisted students in retaining lecture information with creation of guides and course materials.
  • Initiated new learning methods, eliminating instructional gaps and improving comprehension.

Teaching Assistant

University At Albany - SUNY
Albany, NY
01.2019 - 12.2021
  • Assisted teaching of two graduate courses: EPSY 614, Children's Learning and Cognitive Development and EPSY 615, Application of Cognitive Theories.
  • Assisted teachers with classroom management and document coordination to maintain positive learning environment.
  • Supported classroom activities, tutoring, and reviewing work.

School Psychologist

Special Needs Boarding School #6
Chisinau, Moldova
09.2000 - 05.2008
  • Conducted students' individual assessments and determined academic and mental health needs.
  • Conducted students' individual assessments and determined academic and mental health needs.
  • Collaborated with educators, school administrators, and students' parents in development of Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).
  • Facilitated interdisciplinary meetings to assess goals and progress.
  • Conducted group and individual counseling sessions for key issues.

Education

Ph.D. - Educational Psychology and Methodology

University At Albany - SUNY, Albany, NY
08.2018 - Current

Received Tuition Scholarship funded by the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology.

Received Judges Choice Team Award in 2020-2021 DataVisualization Contest organized by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS): Statistically Accurate Interactive Display in Graphics (SAID in Graphics).

Received 2021 Frank J. Filippone-Hillside House Scholarship

Received 2020 Frank J. Filippone-Hillside House Scholarship

Received 2019 Ralph W. Harbison Fellowship Scholarship

Courses Taken:

  • EPSY 530: Statistical Methods I
  • EPSY 630: Statistical Methods II
  • EPSY 640: Educational and Psychological Measurement
  • EPSY 687: Meta-analysis
  • EPSY 724: Regression Analysis
  • EPSY 751: Multivariate Methods for Research
  • EPSY 887: Advanced Statistics using R
  • HSTA 554: Intro to Statistical Theory
  • HSTA 610: Stat Analysis with Missing Data
  • HSTA 670: Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • ECPY 726: Analysis Covariance Structures
  • APSY 753: Psychometric Theory and Research
  • APSY 780: Bayesian Data Analysis

3.74 GPA

Research Projects

  • Dissertation (incomplete): A comparison of college readiness among adult and traditional college-age students; IRT maximum likelihood differential item functioning analyses of the dichotomous and polytomous scores and group comparison.
  • Reliability coefficients for a single-administration survey. Result: Cronbach's alpha is more significantly overestimated than indicated by mathematical and simulation studies, surpassing the level of overestimation commonly acknowledged in academia.
  • Children of Incarcerated Parents; Structural Equation Modeling. Result: Paternal incarceration has no additive effect beyond poverty on preschool children's academic and social skills.
  • Academic Conferencing during Pandemic. Result: A Virtual Conference Model.
  • Influence Statistics and Differential Susceptibility. Result: The influence scores pertaining to mother’s affective quality and peers’ influence on teenagers' deviant behavior proved unrelated when treated continuously and categorically.
  • Predictive validity evidence for machine-scored diagnostic writing assessment; Multiple regression. Result: DAACS total writing score predicts undergraduate students' academic performance.
  • NYS National Core Indicators (NCI) Staff Stability; Multiple regression, missing data analysis, and multiple imputation. Result: Wages, benefits, and efforts to professionalize the workforce explained 12.6% of the variance in tenure of Direct Support Professional (DSP) workforce who provide direct supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
  • Educational Equity in Moldova; Mediation and moderation analyses. Result: Educational equity is insufficient in Moldova: Schools' urban-rural status moderates the relationship between family SES and academic achievement.

Master of Science - Educational Research

University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
09.2016 - 05.2018

Adlerbert Scholarship Recipient

  • PDA 086 : Research methodology, inquiry and data analysis
  • PDA 182: Academic writing and research design.
  • Thesis: Educational equity in Moldovan compulsory schools: Factors behind outcome differences in PISA 2015. Multilevel modeling using Mplus.

Master of Education - Educational Psychology

University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
01.2012 - 04.2014

EPG 654: Psychological Test and Measurement

3.82 GPA

Thesis: Does English medium of instruction affect development of cultural values in teenage students at English Version Schools in Bangladesh? Hypothesis testing. Results: English Version school-sections do contribute to divergent cultural perceptions of their students, even more than international schools.

Skills

Questionnaire/test development

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Software

RStudio

Mplus

Tableau

SPSS

Publications and Presentations

1. Rosca, O., Colvin, K., Andrade, H. L., & Bryer, J. (2023, April 13–15). Comparison of reliability coefficients for a single-administration survey [e-Board presentation]. National Council for Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22756.45447 https://www.ncme.org/viewdocument/2023-annual-meeting-program?LibraryFolderKey=&DefaultView=folder

2. Battista, C., Liu, Q., Huang, R., Rosca, O., & Baker, E. R. (in preparation). Does paternal incarceration have an additive effect beyond poverty on preschool children's academic and social skills?

3. Mir, H., Rosca, O., Liu, Q., & Blakeslee, E. J. (Accepted for Publication). Factors that influence tenure of direct support professionals in New York State. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. https://www.aaidd.org/docs/default-source/prepressarticles/factors-that-influence-the-tenure-of-direct-support-professionals-in-new-york-state-provider-agencies.pdf?sfvrsn=10ab0321_0

4. Yu, E-C., Rosca, O., & Andrade, H. (2022, August 4-6). Predictive validity evidence for machine-scored diagnostic writing assessment [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364812714_Predictive_Validity_Evidence_for_Machine-Scored_Diagnostic_Writing_Assessment

5. Mir, M., Rosca, O., Liu, Q., Blakeslee, E. J., (2021) Poster presentation at the Association for University Centers in Disability (AUCD) Conference: Factors that Influence the Tenure of Direct Support Professionals in the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Field.

6. Rosca, O. (2021). Applying Influence Statistics to Differential Susceptibility. Poster presentation at the Educational Psychology and Methodology 20th annual poster session, SUNY-Albany.

7. Blakeslee, E. J., Mir, M., Rosca, O., Liu, Q. (2020). Factors that influence the tenure of direct support professionals in the intellectual and developmental disabilities field. Poster presentation at the APA Annual Convention 2020, Washington DC. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://irp.cdn-website.com/a5ea5d51/files/uploaded/APA_2020_Program.pdf

8. Haji-Georgi, M., Xu, X., & Rosca, O. (2020). Academic conferencing in 2020: A virtual conference model. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.235

9. Rosca, O. (2020). Direct Support Professionals: Staff stability. Poster presentation at the Educational Psychology and Methodology 19th annual poster session, SUNY-Albany.

10. Rosca, O. (2020, Apr 17 - 21). Educational Equity in Moldova: Testing for Moderation in Socioeconomic Status–Achievement Interaction [Roundtable Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA. (Conference Canceled). https://doi.org/10.3102/1586082

11. Rosca, O. (2019). Educational equity in Moldovan schools: what can be concluded and what cannot be concluded from PISA 2015 results from Moldova. The Institutions & Societies: Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference co-hosted by the Rockefeller College Graduate Association of Political Science (GAPS) and the Students of Educational Administration for Change (SEAChange). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YqptIUtDDykTenWA50FKiUZeRUYZSuOr/view?pli=1

12. Rosca, O. (2019). Compensatory vs. anti-compensatory educational systems: educational equity. Poster presentation at the Educational Psychology and Methodology 18th annual poster session, SUNY-Albany.

13. Rosca, O. (2019). Educational equity in Moldovan compulsory schools: factors behind outcome differences in PISA 2015. Poster presentation at the AERA Annual Meeting Toronto. https://doi.org/10.3102/1433286

14. Rosca, O. (2019). Random slope models in the assessment of educational equity. Presentation at the Fifth Annual School of Education Day, SUNY-Albany.

15. Rosca, O., (2014). Which factor of schooling is the most affecting the development of cultural values in Bangladeshi teenagers? International Journal of Management & Computing Science, 4(1), 81-88. Paper presented at 12th International Conference of Management and Behavioural Sciences (ICMBS) organized by the Society of Management and Behavioural Sciences India and Canada in Jaipur, India. ISSN: 2231-3303. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268808893_Which_Factor_of_Schooling_is_the_Most_Affecting_the_Development_of_Cultural_Values_in_Bangladeshi_Teenagers

16. Rosca, O. (2014). Effects of the medium of instruction and educational curriculum type on development of cultural values in Bangladeshi teenagers. International Conference on Youth, Gender, and HIV (ICYGH), Lucknow, India. DOI: 10.13140/2.1.4096.6723 http://aibasamityuniversity.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/9/5/21950612/accepted_abstracts.pdf

17. Yu, E-C., Rosca, O., & Andrade, H. (2022, August 4-6). Predictive validity evidence for machine-scored diagnostic writing assessment [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33240.98566/1

Timeline

Research Assistant - DAACS Research Group, SUNY Research Foundation
09.2021 - Current
Instructor - University At Albany - SUNY
01.2021 - 08.2022
Graduate Student Intern Data Analyst - NYS Office For People With Developmental Disabilities
05.2019 - 01.2022
Teaching Assistant - University At Albany - SUNY
01.2019 - 12.2021
Graduate Assistant - University At Albany - SUNY
08.2018 - 05.2021
University At Albany - SUNY - Ph.D., Educational Psychology and Methodology
08.2018 - Current
University of Gothenburg - Master of Science, Educational Research
09.2016 - 05.2018
University of Dhaka - Master of Education, Educational Psychology
01.2012 - 04.2014
School Psychologist - Special Needs Boarding School #6
09.2000 - 05.2008
Oxana RoscaResearch Assistant