Rian Djita

Rian Djita

211 Graduate Education BuildingDjita
College of Education and Health Professions
Fayetteville, AR 72701
rrdjita@uark.edu

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Rian R. Djita is a first-generation college student from Indonesia. He was a Math teacher in Indonesia for six years before deciding to pursue his master’s degree at Peabody Vanderbilt with a Fulbright Scholarship in International Education Policy and Management. During his master’s degree at Vanderbilt University, he did his internship for Spring and Summer 2019 at the Tennessee Department of Education under the Research and Data team and Teachers and Leaders division. His research interest in the equity of education for low-income students then brought him to collaborate with other graduate students at Columbia University to work on a research project in the Network for School Improvement initiatives by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the spring semester of 2020. Rian’s keen interests lie in the topic of comparative international policies around equity, International assessments, school choice, and students’ academic outcomes, particularly among English Language Learners.

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.