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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Chapter in BookPuentes al futuro de la educación: Recomendaciones de política para la era digital
Financiar educación de calidad y equitativa en América Latina
2018 Javier González, Santiago Cueto, Alejandra Cardini, Bárbara Flores
Education learning outcomes in low and middle-income countries are still insufficient and unequally distributed. Several factors are behind this situation, many of which relate to education funding: low absolute expenditure per student; increasing gaps in spending levels between developed and developing countries; unequal distribution of key education inputs; inefficient use of pedagogical resources and low […]
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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
The Young Lives Peru Country Report presents a summary of the main findings that emerge from analysing the Young Lives data from Peru across a longitudinal study following two cohorts of children in various situations from remote rural areas to urban communities, as a component of a larger multicountry project. The study relates conditions early […]
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Cobertura, oportunidades y percepciones sobre la educación inclusiva en el Perú
2018 Santiago Cueto, Vanessa Rojas, Martin Dammert, Claudia Felipe
La literatura nacional muestra que la cobertura educativa de la población con discapacidad es menor que la de la población en general, y que las oportunidades educativas son menores que las de sus pares. Así, el derecho a la educación de este grupo es aún limitado. Este estudio contribuye a enriquecer la información sobre las […]
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Chapter in BookEducational Assessment in Latin America
Classroom composition and its association with students’ achievement and socioemotional characteristics in Peru
2018 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Alejandra Miranda
This collection presents educational assessment research from Latin America, adding to a relatively small but growing body of research considering educational assessment and evaluation issues in this large region. The predominance of Chile reflects its early highly centralized education system, and the fact that it adopted national testing before other Latin American countries. It was […]
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Does Visual Acuity Have an Effect on Children’s Educational Achievement?
2017 Santiago Cueto, Javier Escobal, Juan Leon, Mary Penny
Inequity is an important issue for many international initiatives, including the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One aspect of inequity that has received little attention is the impact of disability on education. This working paper explores whether mild or moderate levels of visual impairment are associated with educational performance for 7 and 8-year-old children in […]
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Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru
2005 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Sharon Huttly, Mary Penny
The results of the study confirmed poor educational outcomes for many Peruvian school children. High proportions were unable to master simple tasks and were in a lower school grade
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Las actitudes de los estudiantes peruanos hacia la lectura, la escritura, la matemática y las lenguas indígenas
2003 Santiago Cueto, Fernando Andrade, Juan Leon
Resultados de la administración de diversas escalas de actitudes a estudiantes de cuarto y sexto de primaria y cuarto de secundaria durante la evaluación nacional del rendimiento estudiantil a fines del 2001.
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Oportunidades de aprendizaje y rendimiento en matemáticas en una muestra de estudiantes del sexto grado de primaria de Lima
2003 Santiago Cueto, Cecilia Ramírez, Juan Leon, Oscar Pain
Las oportunidades de aprendizaje (ODA) de matemática en estudiantes de sexto de primaria de escuelas públicas así como la relación entre ODA y el rendimiento de los estudiantes basado en el currículo peruano.
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Impacto educativo de un programa de desayunos escolares en escuelas rurales del Perú
2001 Santiago Cueto, Marjorie Chinen
El presente documento de trabajo pretende presentar y analizar los datos de la evaluación del impacto educativo de un programa de desayunos escolares en escuelas rurales de la zona altoandina del Perú.
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Research
Research on education equity and quality in developing and transition countries
2006 Santiago Cueto, Marlaine Lockheed
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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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JournalFood and nutrition bulletin
Height, weight, and education achievement in rural Peru
2005 Santiago Cueto
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JournalJournal of nutrition
Maternal education and intelligence predict offspring diet and nutritional status
2005 Santiago Cueto, Theodore Wachs, Enrique Jacoby, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro
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JournalDevelopmental psychobiology
Relation of neonatal iron status to individual variability in neonatal temperament
2005 Santiago Cueto, Enrique Jacoby
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Evaluation of a school breakfast program in Peru
Nutrition, health, and child development1998 Enrique Jacoby, Santiago Cueto
The methods and main findings from two studies in Huaraz in one of the five departments targeted for assessing the educational and nutritional impact of the school breakfast program.
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Sentido y práctica de la moral según Piaget
Piaget entre nosotros1997 Santiago Cueto
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Educación en valores aplicada a la educación ambiental
Escuela rural, ecología y comunicación1993 Santiago Cueto
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Projects
- Conceptual framework on the relation between family and school practices and students’ performance in Reading comprehension.November 2010 - November 2010
- Field-work supervision of the impact evaluation of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Program.October 2010
- Impact Evaluation of the One Laptop per Child ProgramSeptember 2010 - December 2010
- Systematic review of the literature on how to increase teacher attendance in developing countriesJune 2010 - January 2011
- Exploring factors associated with cognitive abilities of the adult urban population in PeruJune 2010 - September 2010
- Development of instruments for measurement of child development in Latin America (PRIDI)March 2010 - December 2012
- Impact Assessment of the Community Households Program in GuatemalaNovember 2009 - December 2009
- Impact evaluation of OLPC program in PeruJuly 2009 - March 2010
- Young Lives – communications 2009-2010July 2009 - March 2010
- Young Lives – Qualitative component 2009-2010July 2009 - March 2010
Media
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¿Hacia la nota más alta?, artículo de América Economía con los comentarios de Santiago Cueto
June 17, 2015 Education and learning, State reform and public institutions
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Santiago Cueto opina en “Educación inicial: Faltan 27,000 maestros para educar a los niños del Perú”
May 23, 2015 Education and learning, State reform and public institutions
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Usos de las evaluaciones de rendimiento escolar en el Perú: entrevista a Santiago Cueto, José Antonio Calderón (DRE Puno) y Pilar Saavedra (DRE San Martín) en Radio Exitosa
March 27, 2015 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Estudiantes latinoamericanos mejoran su rendimiento
January 14, 2015 Education and learning, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Santiago Cueto sobre pronunciamiento del CNE en torno a resultados obtenidos por el Perú en la prueba TERCE
December 22, 2014 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Evaluar para mejorar la calidad de la educación
February 13, 2003 Education and learning
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¿Qué hacer con el sistema educativo en el 2002? Flexibilizar y descentralizar
December 1, 2001 Education and learning
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La evaluación del rendimiento de los escolares
October 25, 2001 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