Santiago Cueto Caballero
Senior Researcher
PhD in Educational Psychology - Indiana University
scueto@grade.org.pe
Santiago Cueto holds a degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a PhD in the same field from Indiana University in the United States. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of California at Davis and the University of Oxford. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE, where he coordinates the Peru component of the international study Young Lives/Niños del Milenio. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University in Peru.
He has been a member of the National Council for Education, Technical Board of the National Institute for Educational Assessment (INEE) in Mexico, President of the Peruvian Educational Research Society and Executive Secretary of the Educational Research Fund of the Inter-American Dialogue (Latin American Education Reform Program). He has worked as a consultant to international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and UNESCO.
His main areas of interest are education and human development, particularly within a poverty context. He has published articles in various academic journals as well as books and has also served as Editor for scientific articles at The Lancet, the International Journal of Educational Development, the Catholic University’s Psychology Journal, World Development, Children and Society, among others.
In 2003, at the Global Development Network’s (GDN) Annual Conference, one of his works received the prize for best research project in the Education, Knowledge and Technology category. This study was later published as GRADE Research Paper 43. In 2010, he received the National Award in Psychology by the Professional Board of Psychologists in Peru (Colegio Nacional de Psicólogos). In 2016, he was appointed as distinguished alumni from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In 2018, he received the Magisterial Palms in the degree of Amauta by the Ministry of Education of Peru.
Publications
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JournalRevista de Psicología
[Reseña del libro Error o fraude?: engaños y equivocaciones en la investigación psicobiológica infantil, de Ernesto Pollitt]
2016 Santiago Cueto
La presente reseña se refiere al libro póstumo del investigador peruano más destacado internacionalmente en temas de desarrollo infantil, Ernesto Pollitt.
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Education trajectories in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: from early childhood to early adulthood
2016 Santiago Cueto, Renu Singh, Tassew Woldehanna, Le Thuc Duc
In this policy brief, the authors describe the educational trajectories of 12,000 children in total, across two cohorts: the Younger Cohort born around 1994 and the Older Cohort born around 2001, in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. The data come from Young Lives household and school surveys conducted over the last 15 years. Researchers from […]
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Education trajectories: from early childhood to early adulthood in Peru
2016 Santiago Cueto, Alejandra Miranda, Juan Leon
Since the late 1960s, every President in Peru has proclaimed education to be a high priority. Yet, arguably, results have been poor and unequal. This paper analyses recent trends in education in Peru to raise what we consider are the main challenges to moving forward, and provides policy suggestions. To do this, the authors take a […]
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JournalCNE Opina
Balance y panorama de cuatro programas de educación básica: Acompañamiento Pedagógico, Colegios de Alto Rendimiento, Educación Intercultural Bilingüe y Jornada Escolar Completa
2016 Santiago Cueto
El 19 y 20 de mayo del 2016, en pleno proceso electoral nacional conducente a la segunda vuelta, el Consejo Nacional de Educación organizó un conversatorio sobre cuatro de las políticas y programas en educación básica que mayor atención y recursos recibieron durante el período de gobierno 2011-2016: Jornada Escolar Completa (JEC), Acompañamiento y Soporte Pedagógico, […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Behavioral Development
Introduction to the special section on pathways underlying the impact of economic inequality on children’s development
2016 Theodore D. Wachs, Santiago Cueto
A special section of the International Journal of Behavioral Development devoted to the topic of pathways underlying the impact of economic inequality on children’s development.
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JournalInternational Review of Education
Determinant of school performance among Quechua children in the Peruvian Andes
1999 Enrique Jacoby, Santiago Cueto
In the rural Andes of Peru, primary school inefficiency ranks higher than in the rest of the country, with a nearly 50 per cent rate of first grade repetition.
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JournalRevista de Psicología
Impacto de la educación inicial en el rendimiento en primer grado de primaria en escuelas públicas urbanas de Lima
1999 Santiago Cueto, Juan Jose Diaz
En el presente artículo se analiza el impacto de dos tipos de programas de educación inicial pública, los Centros de Educación Inicial (CEI) y los Programas No Escolarizados de Educación Inicial (PRONOEI).
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JournalJournal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Breakfast prevents delays of attention and memory functions among nutritionally at-risk boys
1998 Santiago Cueto, Enrique Jacoby
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JournalAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition
When science and politics listen to each other: good prospects from a new school breakfast program in Peru
1998 Enrique Jacoby, Santiago Cueto
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JournalAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Fasting and cognition in well- and undernourished schoolchildren: a review of three experimental studies
1998 Enrique Jacoby, Santiago Cueto
This paper reviews three experiments on the effects of an overnight and morning fast on attention and memory processes among 9-11-y-old children.
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Projects
- Evaluación de Impacto del Programa AprenDes – 2007June 2007
- Administration of the Education and Research FundSeptember 2006
- Evaluación de Impacto del Programa AprenDes – 2006August 2006
- De 5to. de primaria al fin de la secundaria en 6 años: un estudio longitudinal en PunoAugust 2006
- Validación y Optimización de un modelo de Mejora de la Eficacia Escolar para IberoaméricaMay 2006
- Supporting researcher’s participation at academic conferences and studies on educationJanuary 2006
- Instruments for the measure of educational qualityJanuary 2006
- Estudio Piloto para Instrumentos de Desarrollo Intelectual y Rendimiento Niños del MilenioNovember 2005
- Evaluación de Impacto del Programa AprenDes II – 2005December 2005
- Evaluación del sistema Escolar y Políticas en América LatinaNovember 2005
Media
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Jesús Herrero, el jesuita que veló por la educación en Perú
December 16, 2013 Education and learning
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La educación rural requiere poner a los estudiantes como el foco de atención
November 20, 2013 Education and learning
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Expertos opinan sobre estudio de GRADE acerca de rendimiento escolar y nivel socioeconómico
April 10, 2013 Education and learning
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Santiago Cueto en Salgalú TV: Balance 2012 del Proyecto Educativo Nacional
April 10, 2013 Education and learning
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Santiago Cueto en Salgalú TV: Educación y nivel socioeconómico
March 27, 2013 Education and learning
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Presentations
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Oportunidades y trayectorias educativas de dos cohortes de estudiantes en el Perú
Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, 23 November, 2018
Presentación en el II Congreso Internacional de Medición Psicológica de la Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola
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Inequalities in educational opportunities and outcomes in secondary schools in Peru
Ciudad de México, 26 March, 2018
Presentación en la 62° Conferencia Anual de la Sociedad de Educación Comparada e Internacional CIES 2018.
Selected Publications
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¿Qué hemos aprendido del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio? Síntesis de hallazgos
2018 Santiago Cueto, Javier Escobal, , Nicolás Pazos, Mary Penny, Vanessa Rojas, Alan Sanchez, Claudia Felipe
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Cobertura, oportunidades y percepciones sobre la educación inclusiva en el Perú
2018 Santiago Cueto, Vanessa Rojas, Martin Dammert, Claudia Felipe