Goals & Deadlines & Learning Curves - Oh My! (w/ Travis Candieas)

Travis Candieas is a Ph.D. (candidate) at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Candieas’s research focuses on the alignment of policy, practice, and experience particularly within educational contexts. His projects span globally with higher education research and evaluation partners located in the U.S. and Latin America. Additionally, he is developing methodologies for reducing bias in large administrative data sets and policy analysis by combining machine learning and causal inference. Travis’s research interests are inspired by his experiences growing up on a dairy farm in Northern California and simultaneously navigating public policies and educational institutions as the first in his family.