Juan León Jara-Almonte
Senior Researcher
PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education - Pennsylvania State University
jleon@grade.org.pe
Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE.
His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early childhood, testing policies and school effectiveness.
Publications
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JournalDemography
The population education transition curve: education gradients across population exposure to new health risks
2017 David Baker, William C. Smith, Ismael G. Muñoz, Haram Jeon, Tian Fu, Juan Leon, Daniel Salinas, Renata Horvatek
The salutary effect of formal education on health-risk behaviors and mortality is extensively documented: ceteris paribus, greater educational attainment leads to healthier lives and longevity. Even though the epidemiological evidence has strongly indicated formal education as a leading “social vaccine,” there is intermittent reporting of counter-education gradients for health-risk behavior and associated outcomes for certain […]
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Equating test scores for receptive vocabulary across rounds and cohorts in Ethiopia, India & Vietnam
2017 Juan Leon, Abhijeet Singh
In longitudinal studies such as Young Lives, getting comparable measures of children´s cognitive abilities over time is essential for identifying individual, household, and school-level factors that affect children´s development. Few longitudinal studies that follow birth/age cohorts include comparable cognitive measures across waves, and those studies that are available are mainly from developed countries. Young Lives […]
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Trayectorias educativas en el Perú: desde la infancia hasta la adultez temprana
2017 Santiago Cueto, Alejandra Miranda, Juan Leon, María Cristina Vásquez
Aportes para el diseño de políticas orientadas a reducir la inequidad del sistema educativo peruano, para lo cual se compara las trayectorias de las dos cohortes del estudio Niños del Milenio —la mayor nacida en 1994; y la menor, en el 2001— estimando sus oportunidades educativas y logros. Se basa, principalmente, en las encuestas de hogares aplicadas […]
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JournalEducational Studies in Mathematics
Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and mathematics achievement of students in Peru
2017 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Alejandra Sorto, Alejandra Miranda
After improving enrolment rates significantly, many developing countries such as Peru are facing the challenge to increase learning levels among students. Over the past few years, many researchers have turned to teacher-related variables as a way to better understand classroom processes that may help increase learning levels among students. In this study, we analyze one […]
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Chapter in BookInvestigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances
El efecto del nivel socioeconómico en el rendimiento de los estudiantes peruanos: un balance de los últimos 15 años
2016 Juan Leon, Yessenia Collahua
The current study examines a meta-analysis of the relationship between family socioeconomic status (SES) and student academic achievement in Peru between 2000 and 2014. In total, 28 primary studies containing a total of 132 effect sizes were analyzed. Effect sizes were calculated using Fisher’s z-statistic, obtained by transforming the partial correlation coefficient associated with each […]
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JournalRevista Electrónica Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación
Oportunidades de aprendizaje y rendimiento escolar en Matemática y Lenguaje: resumen de tres estudios en Perú
2008 Cecilia Ramírez, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Santiago Cueto
This study synthesises three studies on the relationship between opportunities to learn (ODA for its acronym in Spanish) and school performance in public schools in Peru. Learning opportunities in these studies were operationally defined on the basis of curricular coverage, cognitive demand, student feedback and correct exercises. These were estimated from the exercises solved in […]
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JournalEducational Studies in Mathematics
Opportunities to learn and achievement in mathematics in a sample of sixth grade students in Lima, Peru
2006 Santiago Cueto, Cecilia Ramírez, Juan Leon
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Selected Publications
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Is education a risk factor or social vaccine against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa? The effect of schooling across public health periods
2017 Juan Leon, David Baker, Daniel Salinas, Adrienne Henck
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The population education transition curve: education gradients across population exposure to new health risks
2017 David Baker, William C. Smith, Ismael G. Muñoz, Haram Jeon, Tian Fu, Juan Leon, Daniel Salinas, Renata Horvatek
