Rian Djita
Rian Djita
208 Graduate Education Building
College of Education and Health Professions
Fayetteville, AR 72701
rrdjita@uark.eduCV (PDF)
Rian is the Director of Research at the Association of Christian Schools International. He is a Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation topic focuses on immigrant/first-generation college students and their postsecondary outcomes. He is a first-generation college student from Indonesia, where he taught high school math for six years. He earned his master’s degree in international education policy at Peabody Vanderbilt with a Fulbright scholarship. During his graduate school, he did several internships, including at the Tennessee Department of Education under the Research and Data team and Teachers and Leaders division and at the Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia University to work on a research project in the Network for School Improvement initiatives by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He was selected as one of the Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS) 2023. Rian’s keen interests lie in comparative international policies around equity, international assessments, school choice, and students’ academic outcomes, particularly among immigrant/English Language Learners (ELLs) and first-generation college students.
University of Arkansas - Ph.D. in Education Policy (Anticipated 2024)
Vanderbilt University - M.Ed. Leadership, Policy and Organizations
Universitas Pelita Harapan - S.Pd. in Mathematics (Cum laude)
Corban University - B.Sc. in Mathematics- Focus on Indonesian Education: Secondary Mathematics (Cum laude)
Comparison of international education and school choice policies
First-generation higher education students and their outcomes, particularly English Language Learners (ELLs)
Students' civic engagement across school sectors
School leadership
Djita, R., Tran, B. T. N., Nguyen, N. T. M., Wibawanta, B. (2022). The Impacts of The COVID-19 Pandemic On First-Generation, Low-Income And Rural Students In Indonesia And Vietnam: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 14(3 (Part 1).4636
Djita, R. (2019). Looking Through the Implementation of K-13 Through the Lens of AQEE Principle From OECD. Proceedings of Indonesia Focus, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, nov. 2019. ISSN 2475-4005.
Djita, R., & Hill, A. (2019). World Policy Analysis: Food Insecurity in Yemen and Burundi. Iris Journal of Scholarship, 1, 37-47.
Djita, R., Hill, A. World Policy Analysis. Iris Journal of Scholarship, [S.l.],v. 1, p. 37-47, May 2019.
Cheng, A., & Djita, R. (2021). Volunteering and Charitable Giving among Australian Young Adults and the Mediating Role of Community Service Emphasis in Secondary Schools. Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Student Publications. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/edrepub/120
Djita, R., Tran, B. T., Nguyen, N. T., & Wibawanta, B. (2021). The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on First-generation, Low-income and Rural Students in Indonesia and Vietnam: A cross-cultural comparative study. Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Student Publications. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/edrepub/126
Cheng, A., Djita, R. R. (2022). The Role of Poetry in Cultivating Attentiveness, Curiosity, and Affinity in the Science Classroom. Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Student Publications. Retrieved from https://edre.uark.edu/_resources/pdf/edre_wp_2022_04.pdf
Cheng A., Djita, R. R., Hunt, D. (2022). Many Educational Systems, A Common Good. Cardus. Retrieved from https://www.cardus.ca/research/education/reports/many-educational-systems-a-common-good/
Lee, M. H., Djita. R. R., Cheng, A. (2021). Sabbath Practices and Wellness in Christian Schools. Research in Brief: Association of Christian Schools International: Spring 2021. Retrieved from https://www.acsi.org/docs/default-source/website-publishing/research/research-in-brief-spring-2021.pdf
Djita, R. R. (2021, May 25). Sabbath Practices and Well-Being in Christian Schools. ACSI.
Mid-South Educational Research Association Conference 2021. Djita, R. R. (2021). The Impacts of The COVID-19 Pandemic On First-Generation, Low-Income And Rural Students In Indonesia And Vietnam: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study. New Orleans Louisiana.
Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) 46th Annual Conference. Djita, R. R. (2021). The Impacts of The COVID-19 Pandemic On First-Generation, Low-Income And Rural Students In Indonesia And Vietnam: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study. Denver, Colorado.
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference 2021. Djita, R. R. (2021). The Impacts of The COVID-19 Pandemic On First-Generation, Low-Income And Rural Students In Indonesia And Vietnam: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study. San Diego, California.
Djita, Rian. (2019). Looking Through the Implementation of K-13 Through the Lens of AQEE Principle From OECD; What Should Be Improved From Our K-13 Implementation in Order to Be Internationally Competitive? 11th Annual Indonesia Focus Conference, October 5, 2019.