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Director of Research and Evaluation, Institute of International Education (IIE), USA |
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| Rajika Bhandari directs IIE’s research and program evaluation activities and leads two major research projects—Open Doors and Project Atlas—that measure international higher education mobility at the domestic (U.S.) and international level. She also conducts evaluations of IIE’s international scholarship and fellowship programs programs. Before joining IIE, Dr. Bhandari was a Senior Researcher at MPR Associates, an educational research firm in Berkeley, California, that provides research and evaluation services to the U.S. Department of Education, state departments of education, and foundations. She also served as the Assistant Director for Evaluation at the Mathematics and Science Education Network at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she directed research and evaluations of mathematics and science education pre-college and professional development programs. Dr. Bhandari has substantial experience conducting educational research in the U.S. and in India on topics such as women and education in developing countries, immigrant parents’ participation in children’s education in the U.S., and adult education and lifelong learning. She holds a doctoral degree in Psychology from North Carolina State University and a B.A. (Honors) in Psychology from the University of Delhi, India. |
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