Field research
Find your opportunity to make a difference
Pearson's field research team is dedicated to revising, updating, and developing new educational and psychological assessment tools while ensuring that they remain sound and reliable over time. We are looking for qualified field research examiners to be a part of our field testing division. We rely on clinicians like you across Canada to help us create the final version of our tests by administering the proposed revision to their unique candidate pool.
Our commitment to equity and inclusion
How we do field research
A large part of our revision and development process is determining each test's reliability and adherence to ethnic and socioeconomic neutrality. This research involves the participation of thousands of subjects during multiple stages of field testing. These include the pilot and standardization phases, each of which helps us to refine the assessment tools and administration guidelines that will ultimately become the final product.
The Field Research Team enlists qualified examiners to participate in data collection by administering tests — including research editions — to candidates who they have recruited. It is imperative that our assessments are demographically diverse and accurately represent the Canadian population (for Canadian-normed assessments). As a result, our projects are monitored for equal distribution of sex at birth, region of the country, and socioeconomic status.
Our continued ability to deliver the most relevant and reliable assessments depends on the participation of the following professionals:
- Clinical psychologists
- Neuropsychologists
- School psychologists
- Speech language pathologists
- Educational diagnosticians
- Psychometrists
- Psychometricians
- Early childhood intervention specialists
- Supervised graduate students in specific fields
Benefits of participating in field research
Participating in field research is the best way to preview and affect the latest advancements in educational and psychological testing. The data collected during phases of field research are used to calibrate each assessment and determine the possible range of scores, ensuring they are unbiased and clear across all demographics.
For participation in field research testing, we compensate both the examiners who are administering the assessments, as well as the examinees who are taking them. Compensation varies from project to project depending on different variables. We offer site compensation for organizations willing to coordinate directly with examiners, provide recruiting assistance.
Examiners are crucial to providing valuable feedback to our team, which often affects the outcome of the final product.
Get involved
Each examiner and site that chooses to participate in field research must complete a Become an Examiner form. This form will gather information about your credentials, population access, and administration experience.
Once an application is completed, examiners will gain access to the Examiner Portal, our online hub that houses important resources for examiners. Examiners will receive access to information about current and upcoming field research projects and can choose the projects they would like to participate in. A member of the Canadian Field Research Team will help ensure that examiners have the necessary information to begin recruiting candidates. Once recruited, the candidate’s information is submitted to Pearson through the Participant Reservation Questionnaire. The candidate will then be reviewed for selection by the Field Research Team, then assigned to complete testing.
For more information
Please contact our Field Research team via email