Orfalea Center Graduate Students
Travis Candieas
Departments
Education
Research Clusters
Affiliation Period
06/2023 - 06/2025
Research Project
Evaluating student sense of belonging across Brazilian institutions of higher education
Research Description
My research project implements a pilot survey to collect data from students across public and private IHE in Brazil regarding their sense of belonging in globally connected issues. Sense of belonging serves as a significant measure in higher education organizational research to improve academic performance and increase other important aspects of human capital. The findings from this study have significant implications for the economics of education and future research on institutional quality internationally.
Research Interests
Brazilian higher education; education policy; affirmative action; mixture modeling; applied statistics.
Orfalea Center Productions
Multimedia Report: Affirmative Action Experiences in Brazil
Student Bio
Travis Candieas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Candieas’s research focuses on education policy and institutional quality with an emphasis in quantitative methods in the social sciences. His current projects include evaluating education and workforce development programs, longitudinal outcomes of social programs, and student sense of belonging internationally across institutions of higher education. His academic work has been presented at the American Evaluation Association annual conference, and his technical reports have been used for regional planning and implementation of California public policy initiatives.