Research

* In English only

Graduate programs where I'm a faculty member:

• Business Administration

Research Interests:

• Evaluation (evaluation use, evaluation capacity building, evaluation approaches)

• Educational Measurement/Assessment

• Financial Education

Research Group (Brazilian CNPq plataform)

For future graduate students

I'm keen to accept graduate students to work on my research projects. I'm also keen to accept students with original ideas since they are related to my research interests (sorry, but this is the only way to assure my contribution).  Feel free to contact me.

My advising philosophy

• I'm very transparent with my advisees.

• The dissertation is not mine. I'll respect your decisions.

• Diversity is important ("being different makes us collectively stronger").

• I respect the boundaries of your professional x personal life.

• I love doing research, and I hope you feel the same. 

Guidelines for future graduate students

If you want to join my research team as a Master or Ph.D. student, you must follow these guidelines:

• First of all, you must demeanor in an ethical way (always).

• You should be very research-driven.

• You must be able to work independently.

• You must be able to completely read in English (not using a translator!). There are some free courses online (kultivi, Globalizando, and some apps, like Duolingo).

• You must dedicate most of your time to the research project (full-time preferred). If you work with a lot of other things (like a formal job or similar), try another advisor. If you plan to have a scholarship, then full-time dedication is paramount.

• Time management is important. Save your time and also save mine.

• I'm committed to research transparency and reproducibility. You must do the same.

• I work with quantitative or mixed methods, not with pure qualitative research. This means that you must be open to studying Statistics.

• If you want to change your project later and start with another adviser, it's ok. Be transparent and ethical.

• We can publish together, but I'll not put my name if I don't contribute to the article.

Tools you must learn (soon!) - There are many tutorials on Youtube. Learning is fun!

• Word & Excel, Google Docs & Sheets (I shouldn't need to write this, right?).

• Google forms and other online survey tools like Surveymonkey or Qualtrics.

• Zotero - Citation management. (tutorials)

• Obsidian - Note-taking app.

• Zotero + Obsidian - Nice Tutotial

• OSF - Open Science Framework.

• R Statistical Software.

• Systematic review tools and protocols - like Prisma, and Parsifal.

• Screening tools - like Abstrackr or Rayyan.

Interesting websites and tools

• Literature search - connectedpapers

• Literature maps - litmaps.com

• Literature review AI - research rabbit

• To take notes AI - lateral

• To summarize academic articles - paper-digest

• Search for journals processing time - scirev

• Journals impact factor list - scimagscio

• Word frequency counter - writewords

• Potential predatory journals - Beall's list, and predaqualis (in Portuguese)

• Dictionary - Cambrige Dictionary

• Find synonyms - thesaurus

• Rephrase tool - smodin

• Language suggestions - paperpal 

• Language revision - Trinka AI

• Spread your findings - growkudos

• To check academic manuscripsts - penelope

• Literature maps - litmaps

• Find journals to pubish your article - journalguide

• Synthesis of multiple papers - robotreviewer