Browsing by Author "Claro Larrain, Susana"

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    Let’s spend time together: text messaging parents to help math-anxious students
    (2021) Santana Sepúlveda, Macarena Paz; Nussbaum Voehl, Miguel; Claro Larrain, Susana; Piza Lería, Sebastián; Imbarack Dagach, Patricia; Loeb, Susanna
    Even when parents have the time required to support their children’s education, they can increase their children’s anxiety about school when they try to help, especially if they are not confident in their own abilities. This study measures the effects of having parents complete nonacademic schoolwork with their teenage children. Half of the 422 participating parents were randomly assigned to receive weekly assignments for nonacademic activities to complete with their children, whereas the other half received information about upcoming mathematics tests. Mathematics-anxious students benefited from working on the nonacademic assignments, performing significantly better on their mathematics tests and decreasing their mathematics anxiety after treatment. These findings highlight the importance of involving parents in ways that feel nonthreatening to their children.
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    Students With Growth Mindset Learn More in School: Evidence From California’s CORE School Districts
    (2024) Claro Larrain, Susana; Loeb, Susanna
    Previous research provides evidence that developing a growth mindset—believing that one’s capabilities can improve—promotes academic achievement. Although this phenomenon has undergone prior study in a representative sample of ninth graders in the United States, it has not been studied in representative samples of other grade levels or with standardized assessment measures of achievement rather than more subjective grades. Using a rich longitudinal data set of more than 200,000 students in Grades 4 through 7 in California who we followed for a year until they were in Grades 5 through 8, this article describes growth mindset gaps across student groups and confirms, at a large scale, the predictive power of growth mindset for achievement gains. We estimate that a student with growth mindset who is in the same school and grade level and has the same background and achievement characteristics as a student with a fixed mindset learns 0.066 SD more annually in English language arts, approximately 18% of the average annual growth or 33 days of learning if we assume learning growth as uniform across the 180 days of the academic year. For mathematics, the corresponding estimates are 0.039 SD, approximately 17% of average annual growth or 31 days of learning.
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    Teachers’ strategies and challenges in teaching 21st century skills: little common understanding
    (2023) Varas, Diego; Santana, Macarena; Nussbaum Voehl, Miguel; Claro Larrain, Susana; Imbarack Dagach Patricia
    Faced with a world of accelerating change and rapidly-evolving technology, education systems must provide students with the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century. However, many countries have failed to incorporate the teaching of these skills within their schools. Our study therefore looks to portray teachers' understanding, strategies and obstacles in teaching these skills across Latin American classrooms. To do so, we analyzed the responses to an online survey from 1391 active teachers across 20 countries in the region. This revealed varying understandings of 21st century skills, with little common understanding. Most teachers failed to mention the skills included in the most popular framework (the 4 Cs); those who did reported using the same strategies, regardless of the skill being taught. These strategies included project-based learning, oracy activities, literacy strategies, and teamwork. We conclude that there is little or no common understanding around these skills, nor the best strategies for developing them. Our study helps understand the potential causes preventing the teaching of these skills in the classroom, a problem that extends beyond Latin America.
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    Tutorías para niños, niñas y adolescentes: una oportunidad para la aceleración del aprendizaje integral pospandemia
    (Centro de Políticas Públicas UC, 2022) Cabezas Gazaga, Veronica; Gallego Yanez, Francisco Antonio; Narea Biscupovich, Marigen Soledad; Volante Beach, Paulo Luis; Claro Larrain, Susana; Koppmann Kuester, Francisca Agnes; Monge, Maria Paz; Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile; Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
    La pandemia, y la crisis social y económica asociada a ella, sumada a la suspensión de clases presenciales, está generando un verdadero “terremoto” educativo, que se manifiesta en la pérdida de aprendizajes y experiencias relevantes para niños y niñas en el mundo. En Latinoamérica, a fines de 2020, se estimaba que se habían perdido, en promedio, 159 días lectivos de educación presencial. Junto con ello, datos de la Unesco (2022) muestran que a fines de febrero de 2022 más de 40 millones de estudiantes en el mundo aún estaban afectados por el cierre parcial o total de sus escuelas.En esa línea, una serie de estudios ha sugerido que, dentro de los programas de remediación y aceleración de aprendizajes, las intervenciones no tradicionales pueden tener efectos positivos en los resultados de aprendizaje y de desarrollo integral. En particular, este artículo se enfocará en los programas de tutorías a escolares –entendidos como métodos de instrucción uno a unoo en grupos pequeños realizados por profesores, otros profesionales de la educación, voluntarios o apoderados–, que se han identificado como uno de los proyectos educativos de mayor versatilidad e impacto.El propósito de este trabajo es, en base a la evidencia disponible, proponer recomendaciones para implementar y escalar programas de tutoría a nivel nacional, proyectándolos como una política pública de alto impacto que trascienda el contexto de pandemia.