Browsing by Author "Paredes, Valentina"

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    Chile: academic performance and educational management under a rigid employment regime
    (COMISION ECONOMICA PARA AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE, 2009) Paredes, Ricardo D.; Paredes, Valentina
    Working with census information on standardized academic performance tests and using different estimation techniques, this article analyses sociodemographic and management factors affecting the performance of Chile's municipal schools. The evidence suggests that the system's lack of flexibility, particularly where teacher dismissal is concerned, is an important factor but not the main cause of poor academic performance. Conversely, the differences in academic performance between municipal schools that can be attributed to management are almost twice the standard deviation of the System for Measuring the Quality of Education (SIMCE) performance test and 20 times the increment ascribed to the "complete school day" initiative, which costs the equivalent of half a point of gross domestic product (GDP).
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    Do Students Improve Their Academic Achievement When Assigned to a Growth Mindset Teacher?
    (2025) Claro Larraín, Susana; Paredes, Valentina; Cruz, Gabriel; Cabezas Gazaga, Verónica
    Growing evidence shows that a student’s growth mindset (the belief that intelligence is malleable) can benefit their academic achievement. However, less is known about how a teacher’s growth mindset affects their students’ academic performance. In this article, we study the impact of being assigned to a teacher with a growth mindset in a nationwide sample from Chile. Using data from two subject teachers per student, we find that having a teacher with a growth mindset increases standardized test scores by approximately 0.02 SD. The effect is larger for students with high grade point averages and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Exploratory analysis suggests that growth mindset teachers are more likely to employ effective classroom practices than those with a fixed mindset.
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    Gender Protests and Transgressive Tactics
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Disi Pavlic, Rodolfo; Paredes, Valentina; Reyes-Housholder, Catherine Grace
    This chapter focuses on “gender protests,” defined as social conflicts motivated by equality issues concerning men and women as well as sexual majorities and minorities. Feminist protests resurged massively in May 2018 in what has been referred to as a “third wave” of Chilean feminism (Fina Gonzalez and Figueroa Vidal in Revista Punto Género 11:51–72, 2019; Miranda and Roque in Economía y Política 8:65–93, 2021; Reyes-Housholder and Roque in Revista de Ciencia Política 39:191–216, 2019).