Gabriela Guerrero Barnechea
Senior Researcher
PhD in Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
gguerrero@grade.org.pe
Gabriela Guerrero has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven in Belgium and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies with a major in Public Policy from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
She is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE in the areas of Education and learning, Poverty and equality and Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes. Her research interests are early childhood development, educational transitions, intercultural bilingual education and school effectiveness.
Publications
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Panorama de los programas de visitas domiciliarias en América Latina y el Caribe
2024 Gabriela Guerrero, Marcela Ponce de León
The Inter-American Dialogue and UNICEF present this study as a contribution to strengthening the early childhood care and development agenda in the region. Through a cross-sectional analysis and comparison of the design and implementation of home visiting programmes in ten countries in the region, the study seeks to provide a characterisation of these programmes, highlighting […]
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Chapter in BookEl Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
Avances y desafíos en la prevención de la violencia contra los niños, niñas y adolescentes en el hogar: una deuda al Bicentenario
2022 Gabriela Guerrero, Vanessa Rojas
This essay focuses on the analysis of violence against children and adolescents in the home, where they spend most of their time and which is not always a safe environment. The authors highlight the limited progress of policies against violence against children and adolescents in the home. They explain that this is mainly due to […]
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¿Qué diferencia hacen las escuelas? Un estudio de métodos mixtos en colegios secundarios del Perú
2021 Juan Leon, Gabriela Guerrero, Santiago Cueto, Paul Glewwe
The study on which this policy document is based analyzes which factors are associated with good results of students in public secondary educational institutions (IE), despite their adverse socioeconomic condition. For this purpose, a mixed methods design is used that follows a sequential explanatory model, which allows us to explore the effect of different types […]
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What difference do schools make? A mixed methods study in secondary schools in Peru
2021 Juan Leon, Gabriela Guerrero, Santiago Cueto, Paul Glewwe
This study contributes to the scarce literature on school effectiveness in secondary education in Peru by addressing the following questions: i) which educational processes within schools are most influential in math and reading comprehension? and in the case of the most effective schools, ii) what is the importance that principals, teachers, and students place on […]
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Measuring the impact of covid-19 on children under the age of six in Latin America
2021 Gabriela Guerrero
Although in medical terms children are not considered a high-risk group for Covid-19, the impact of the pandemic on them is significant, especially among those who were already vulnerable before the crisis. Because of this, in different regions of the world – including Latin America and the Caribbean – the need was identified to implement […]
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Panorama de los programas de visitas domiciliarias en América Latina y el Caribe
2024 Gabriela Guerrero, Marcela Ponce de León
The Inter-American Dialogue and UNICEF present this study as a contribution to strengthening the early childhood care and development agenda in the region. Through a cross-sectional analysis and comparison of the design and implementation of home visiting programmes in ten countries in the region, the study seeks to provide a characterisation of these programmes, highlighting […]
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Measuring the impact of covid-19 on children under the age of six in Latin America
2021 Gabriela Guerrero
Although in medical terms children are not considered a high-risk group for Covid-19, the impact of the pandemic on them is significant, especially among those who were already vulnerable before the crisis. Because of this, in different regions of the world – including Latin America and the Caribbean – the need was identified to implement […]
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Perú: Informe de progreso de políticas de primera infancia
2019 Gabriela Guerrero
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Estudio sobre la implementación del currículo nacional de la educación básica en Instituciones educativas públicas focalizadas
2018 Gabriela Guerrero
This qualitative research was conducted between August 2017 and February 2018 and included the following tasks: i) review of curriculum documents and tools to support the implementation of the National Curriculum; ii) data collection through in-depth interviews and focus groups with selected stakeholders in a sample of nine educational institutions in three regions of Peru: […]
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Evaluación del diseño e implementación de las formas de atención diversificada en el nivel de educación secundaria de la educación básica regular en el ámbito rural (FAD)
2018 Gabriela Guerrero
This report presents the results of the Evaluation of the Design and Implementation of the Forms of Diversified Attention (FAD) at the secondary level of regular basic education, which the Peruvian Ministry of Education (Minedu) has been implementing in rural areas of the country. The FAD at the secondary education level allow children and adolescents […]
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JournalGender and Education
Young women and higher education in Peru: how does gender shape their educational trajectories?
2020 Gabriela Guerrero, Vanessa Rojas
In the last 20 years, a reversal of the gender gap in higher education (HE) has been observed both in developed and developing countries. Nowadays, more women than men are studying HE. Nevertheless, averages tend to high disparities and gender gaps are still observed when indicators take poverty and ethnicity into account. This paper uses […]
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JournalTarea. Revista de Educación y Cultura
La secundaria rural: una evaluación de sus formas de atención diversificada
2018 Gabriela Guerrero
At the request of the Ministry of Education, the FORGE project evaluated three forms of diversified care in Rural Secondary Education with the aim of analysing whether their design was relevant to the objectives set and to what extent their implementation responded to what was planned. This article presents the results of this evaluation.
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JournalRevista Peruana de Investigación Educativa
Ausentismo docente en Perú: factores asociados y su efecto en el rendimiento
2015 Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon
The objective of this study is twofold. First, to describe how teachers’ and schools’ characteristics are associated with teacher absenteeism. Second, to explore the relationship between teacher absenteeism and student achievement (mathematics and language), after holding constant student, school and contextual variables. The study uses the Young Lives’ School Survey database which has information for […]
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JournalOxford Review of Education
The relationship between socioeconomic status at age one, opportunities to learn and achievement in mathematics in fourth grade in Peru
2014 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Mayli Zapata, Silvana Freire
Using Young Lives longitudinal data from Peru, this paper explores the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) measured at the age of one, opportunities to learn (OTL) and achievement in mathematics ten years later. Four variables of OTL were measured: hours of class per year, curriculum coverage, quality of teachers’ feedback, and level of cognitive demand. […]
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JournalJournal of Development Effectiveness
Getting teachers back to the classroom: a systematic review on what works to improve teacher attendance in developing countries
2013 Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Mayli Zapata, Santiago Cueto
This article reports on a systematic review of research on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at increasing teacher attendance in developing countries. After a comprehensive search process, nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Pooled effects sizes of included studies were estimated (with the exception of three studies that had unavailable information to calculate their effect […]
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Avances y desafíos en la prevención de la violencia contra los niños, niñas y adolescentes en el hogar: una deuda al Bicentenario
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Gabriela Guerrero, Vanessa Rojas
This essay focuses on the analysis of violence against children and adolescents in the home, where they spend most of their time and which is not always a safe environment. The authors highlight the limited progress of policies against violence against children and adolescents in the home. They explain that this is mainly due to […]
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Atención y educación de la primera infancia en el Perú: avances y retos pendientes
Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances2016 Gabriela Guerrero, Flavia Demarini
The first years of a child’s life are fundamentally important. However, not all children are exposed to early experiences that enable them to reach their full potential. By the time children enter primary school, there are obvious gaps in the level of development between children of different socioeconomic statuses. Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) […]
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Explaining an overcoming marginalization in education: ethnic/language minorities in Peru
Childhood poverty: multidisciplinary approaches2012 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Ismael G. Muñoz, Juan Leon, Elisa Seguin
In the past few decades, education in Peru has shown increased enrolment, especially in primary schools, but low achievement as measured by national and international standard tests in reading comprehension and mathematics. However, averages hide wide disparities in educational outcomes, which are often influenced by individual and family characteristics. Among these, coming from a family […]
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Del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho: una análisis de la implementación de la Política Nacional de Educación Bilingüe Intercultural en Puno, Peru
Cambio y continuidad en la escuela peruana: una mirada institucional a la implementación de programas, procesos y proyectos educativos2010 Gabriela Guerrero
From their visits to classrooms, the authors offer useful elements for analysing what is happening in various areas of this Peruvian educational field: how do discourses on Peruvian history acquire meaning according to the institutional context in which they are taught, how do individual social circumstances influence the implementation of bilingual education programmes, how much […]
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Oportunidades de aprendizaje y rendimiento en matemática de los estudiantes de tercero y cuarto grados de primaria en Lima y Ayacucho
Educación, procesos pedagógicos y equidad: cuatro Mimeos de investigación2004 Santiago Cueto, Cecilia Ramírez, Juan Leon, Gabriela Guerrero
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¿Qué diferencia hacen las escuelas? Un estudio de métodos mixtos en colegios secundarios del Perú
2021 Juan Leon, Gabriela Guerrero, Santiago Cueto, Paul Glewwe
The study on which this policy document is based analyzes which factors are associated with good results of students in public secondary educational institutions (IE), despite their adverse socioeconomic condition. For this purpose, a mixed methods design is used that follows a sequential explanatory model, which allows us to explore the effect of different types […]
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Does the cradle set the opportunities and educative achievement? A look to the Peruvian case
2014 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Mayli Zapata, Silvana Freire
This paper aims to contribute to the design of policies to reduce inequality in the Peruvian education system by analysing the association between students’ socio-economic status (NSE), learning opportunities (ODA) and educational achievement.
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Demanda social por programas de atención y educación de la primera infancia (AEPI) en el Perú
2014 Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon
Providing relevant information for planning the scaling up of AEPI programme services through the perceptions and opinions of key stakeholders in two regions of the country.
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OECD reviews of school resources: Colombia 2018
2018 Thomas Radinger, Alfonso Echazarra, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Pablo Valenzuela
This country review report offers an independent analysis of major issues facing the use of school resources in Colombia from an international perspective. It provides a description of national policies, an analysis of strengths and challenges, and a proposal of possible future approaches. The analysis focuses on the funding of school education, the provision of […]
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Inclusión social: diálogos entre la investigación y las políticas públicas
2014 Martín Benavides, Miguel Jaramillo, Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Nestor Valdivia, Lorena Alcazar, Manuel Glave, Maria Balarin, Juan Jose Diaz, Juana Kuramoto, Gerardo Damonte
Esta publicación recoge el espíritu del seminario internacional "Cambios Institucionales para un Estado más Inclusivo" (julio de 2012), y apunta a lo más relevante y valioso de cada exposición, intervención y comentario.
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Oportunidades y riesgos de la transferencia del servicio Wawa Wasi a los Gobiernos Locales Provinciales
2010 Gabriela Guerrero, Claudia Sugimaru
This study analyses the opportunities and risks of the unfinished transfer of the Wawa Wasi service —which serves children aged six months to four years— to Local Provincial Governments. The research, carried out from June to December 2008, included a review of the regulations issued for this process, as well as interviews with stakeholders in […]
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Projects
- Preparation of the Action Plan 2024- 2034 of the Metropolitan Policy for Early Childhood in the Metropolitan District of QuitoOctober 2024
- Analysis of changes in family structures and arrangements in households with children and adolescents in EcuadorSeptember 2024
- ECD Exit Grant / Evidence-based policies in PeruOctober 2023
- Study to identify the facilitating elements and barriers in the design and implementation of the Program for the Prevention of Violence in the School Environment (PREVI)October 2023
- Panorama de los programas DIT de visitas domiciliarias en América Latina y el CaribeNovember 2022
- Development of the theory of change and impact evaluation design of the school violence prevention model.October 2022
- Design of an evidence-based Early Childhood Development program for Porticus in PeruOctober 2020
- Evaluation of the Design and Implementation of Volar Project in PunoDecember 2019
- Inequality of opportunity in Peru: How can young people develop relevant skills and find decent employment in a rapidly changing job market?December 2018
- Progress report on early childhood policies in PeruSeptember 2018
Media
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Escolares siguen pasos de padres con estudios superiores
December 16, 2013 Education and learning
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Escolares siguen pasos de padres con estudios superiores
December 16, 2013 Education and learning
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