Do you have a research proposal capable of tackling the leading challenges in Chile’s education sector?
What did Education 2020 consist of?
Providing a solution to solve three education challenges defined by outside establishments, involving the development of innovative research-based education solutions and carried out by multidisciplinary teams. Outside organizations from the education sector determined which challenges the program would tackle.
What were the challenges?
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Challenge 1
Developing an education level assessment system designed to place high school students entering an educational establishment run by Fundación Súmate. The proposed solution must include a measurement instrument for use by the school and guidelines for conducting the assessment process.
Planteado por: Fundación Súmate launch. launch.
Premio: $4,000,000 in financing
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Challenge 2
Developing an ICT-based teaching program designed to build general skills that will enable youth offenders to get a job. The proposal must include the teaching materials developed and the schedule of activities prepared for the adolescents during a semester.
Planteado por: Corporación Cimientos launch. launch.
Premio: $8,000,000 in financing
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Challenge 3
Developing a training model for staff working with juvenile offenders. The proposal should include the training model and the tools that Corporación Cimientos would be replicating in their training.
Planteado por: Corporación Cimientos launch. launch.
Premio: $8,000,000 in financing
Who can apply?
Interdisciplinary teams of three or more members, one of which must be a UC-affiliated researcher with a contract for 22 hours or more weekly.
Winners of the 2020 Edition
The application process culminated with the successful development of three solutions that meet the challenges posed by Fundación Súmate and Corporación Cimientos. A brief description of each solution follows.
Solution to Challenge 1: Alien Invasion, an innovative game-based school assessment system designed for use with students who are in the process of reintegrating to school. It provides an innovative and fun alternative to traditional evaluation formats.
This solution was developed by an interdisciplinary team led by School of Education Professor Patricia Guerrero, and PhD students in Education and Sociology, the Súmate Foundation, Mapu Praxis (a teachers’ organization devoted to creating learning spaces), and Within Play, a board game developer.
Learn more about Alien Invasion.
Solution to Challenge II – Measurement Model for Evaluating Interventions
The winning team (Catalina Droppelmann, Victoria Osorio and Loreto Muñoz) belongs to the Centro de Estudios Justicia y Sociedad UC (CJS) of the Institute of Sociology. The CJS team took on the challenge of developing indicators to evaluate the didactic model implemented by Corporación Cimientos for young offenders.
Learn more about this Measurement Model for Evaluating Interventions.
Solution to Challenge 2 – CRECE Project
“Project Crece: Citizenship, robotics and effective communication” was developed to address the third challenge posed by the Chilean Chamber of Construction’s Corporación Cimientos in the Education 2020 Challenges Program. It consists of a program designed to improve the viability of the lifetime plans of minors in the national foster care system (SENAME), using a virtual reality-based instructional/teaching model. The foster children use the technology to simulate and deal with adverse situations that they will face when they leave the care system, situations that are often barriers to their social and work reintegration.
The team taking home first prize in this challenge included researchers Laura Valledor (UC Education), Claudia Reyes (UC Social Work), Rubén Fernández (Innovaxis), Carolina Castillo (Innovaxis) and Karen Sáez (Master’s student in UC Education).
Learn more about Project CRECE.
