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Tuesday, 21 de January de 2025Tablets or mobiles? Use of devices for a reading application during the pandemic
The objective of this research was to identify if there is a differentiated impact on the access and use of a reading application (Booksmart, by Worldreader) between students who used tablets compared to those who used mobile phones to access the resource. It also sought to understand the perceptions of the actors involved regarding the use of the application on each […]
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Wednesday, 1 de January de 2025
From Math to Reading: Expanding APPrendemos in Peru’s Public Schools
During 2021 GRADE scaled up the Conecta Ideas Peru digital education program nationwide with the objective of promoting mathematics learning in students from 3rd to 6th grade of primary school. As part of the program, an app for students (owned by Automind) and a website for teachers were developed. Based on this experience, this project […]
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Thursday, 26 de December de 2024
Interrupción escolar y vulnerabilidad educativa en el Perú: datos, estudios y recomendaciones para la educación básica en el Perú
This report presents data, studies, and analyses related to the interruption of studies, commonly referred to in the literature as school dropout or early school leaving, whether temporary or permanent. Here, we use the term “school dropout (interruption of studies)” to refer to children and adolescents who are not enrolled in regular basic education (EBR, […]
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Thursday, 26 de December de 2024
Interrupción escolar y vulnerabilidad educativa en el Perú
This document presents an analysis of school interruption in Peru, highlighting both its multi-causal nature and its disproportionate impact on the students affected. This phenomenon is the result of factors that often arise beforehand in vulnerable populations, such as rural, indigenous and extremely poor populations. Factors such as low educational quality aggravate the interruption of […]
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Monday, 23 de December de 2024
Vanessa Rojas is appointed Senior Investigator at GRADE
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Vanessa Rojas as GRADE’s Senior Researcher. Her work has focussed on the anthropology of education, addressing topics as educational transitions, childhood well-being, educational quality, power relations and childhood. She holds a PhD in Sociology and is a Lead Researcher for the qualitative component at Young Lives Peru. Congratulations Vanessa! Institutional […]
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Sunday, 22 de December de 2024
Diseños experimentales y su contribución a la medición de impacto de programas sociales y educativos: análisis del estudio experimental del programa “Atención educativa oportuna para el desarrollo integral de niños y niñas de 3 años”
The objective of this article is to analyze the scope and limitations of experimental studies for measuring the impact of a child care program. To achieve this, the research examines a study that aims to estimate the impact on the overall development of children involved in the project “Timely Educational Support for the Comprehensive Development […]
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Saturday, 14 de December de 2024
Trayectorias educativas de jóvenes rurales y urbanos del Perú
Based on fieldwork carried out in Peru as part of the Niños del Milenio – Young Lives project, which has been conducting a longitudinal comparative study with two cohorts of children since 2000 in four countries, we analyzed the educational trajectories of 22 adolescents living in poverty. We want to know how these young people -from […]
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Tuesday, 3 de December de 2024
Congressmen want to change Pronabec’s scholarship distribution system. Carmela Chávez’s opinion
“This change in profile from a technical and meritocratic representation to a guild representation, of interested parties, generates many problems for transparency and accountability.” Our Associated Researcher Carmela Chávez shares her opinion on the legislative proposal that seeks to reconform the board of directors of Pronabec, as well as to modify the system of scholarships […]
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Monday, 25 de November de 2024
Claudia Sugimaru attended the kick-off meeting of the GPE KIX Observatory on Education System Resilience initiative
The GPE KIX Observatory on Education System Resilience was officially launched. As part of this initiative, GRADE leads the Observatory for Educational Adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean AdaptED. Along with the six regional implementing partners, the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC) held a kick-off meeting in Ottawa. Our Adjunct Research Claudia Sugimaru […]
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Thursday, 21 de November de 2024
GRADE, in partnership with SUMMA and UNICEF, leads AdaptED: Observatory for Educational Adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean
We are pleased to share with you the launch of the new project AdaptED: Observatory for Educational Adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean, led by GRADE, in partnership with SUMMA and UNICEF. The AdaptED Observatory will study educational resilience in the countries that are part of the Global Partnership for Education KIX in the […]
