Mark Adkins

Mark Adkins

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  • About me

    Psychometrician and Data Analyst

  • Education

    • York University

      2015 - 2018
      Master's degree Psychology - Special Focus on Quantitative Methods

      Monte Carlo simulation assessing the impact which varying approaches for dealing withnon-normal model residuals has on confidence interval properties.Project was version control using GitHub at https://github.com/Standard-Deviator/GLM-Non-normality-simulation

    • York University

      2017 - 2024
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods

      Project exploring the teaching of effect size estimation and interpretation within Canadian university psychology statistics classes. Survey was conducted using formr.org

    • University of Regina

      2011 - 2015
      Bachelor of Arts - BA PSYCHOLOGY

      Activities and Societies: Psychological Students Association Executive Member Graduated with high honors in Psychology with minors in Computer Science and Philosophy.

  • Experience

    • York University

      Sept 2019 - Dec 2019
      Course Director

      I taught a second year statistics class at the Glendon campus of York University. The course focused on statistical thinking and used a model-based approach to understanding statistical tests.

    • York University

      Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
      Research Assistant

      Project examining the temporal organization of free recall in children. I created computationally reproducible scripts which ran a permutation analysis.https://osf.io/fskxh/

    • York University

      Jul 2021 - Apr 2023

      Implemented UX design principles to improve student grades dashboard using shiny and the Bootstrap 4 framework. Provided statistical advice for modelling survey data using item-response theory. Performedstatistical analyses and report writing. The project explored how/whether Ontario SocialWorkers include animals in their formal assessments.

      • Teaching Assistant

        Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
      • Teaching Assistant

        Sept 2015 - Apr 2023
      • Research Assistant

        Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
    • Royal Roads University

      Jan 2023 - now
      Research Assistant

      Accessed secured data within a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre to perform datacleaning, wrangling, and performed advanced statistical analysis as part of a multi-universityresearch team examining inter-generational trends in social assistance usage within Ontariofamilies.

    • University of Toronto

      Oct 2023 - now
      Psychometrician and Data Analyst

      I am a Psychometrician and Data Analyst in the Office of the Associate Dean, MD Program, Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

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