Castillo Gonzalez, Carolina
PhD student, admission 2021
Nationality: Chilean
Education: Social Anthropologist, University of Chile. Master in Sociology, Social Transformations and Innovation, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction: Carolina Castillo is Anthropologist and Master in Sociology. Her research interests are related to the evaluation of writing at different stages of schooling, validity and fairness in measurements. educational and standardized assessments.
About my thesis
Thesis: Biases and gaps in the measurement of the written ability of Latin American students: In Search of Equanimity.
Project description: The project seeks to investigate the biases and gaps in the writing ability of Latin American students, in order to safeguard fairness and validity in their measurement.
Director: Natalia Avila Reyes
Line of research: School teaching and learning
Publications and presentations
Publications
- Gelber, D., Castillo, C., Alarcón, L., Treviño, E., & Escribano, R. (2021). COVID-19 and the right to education in Chile: An opportunity to revisit our social contract. International Review of Education, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-021-09881-2
- Gelber, D., Ávila Reyes, N., Espinosa Aguirre, MJ, Escribano, R., Figueroa Miralles, J. and Castillo González, C. (2021). Myths and Realities about the Inclusion of Migrants in Chilean Classrooms: The Case of Writing. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5801
- Carrasco, D., Treviño, E., López Hornickel, N., & Castillo, C. (2021). Students ratings their open classroom discussion. In Quantitative Psychology (pp. 463-475). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74772-5_41
Participation in projects
FONDEF IDEA R&D PROJECT "Towards a socially fair evaluation of writing"
Line of research: School teaching and learning
Academics: Natalia Avila Reyes
Student: Carolina Castillo, thesis student
Project summary: The objective of this research is to develop a writing test that is appropriate and fair to measure the writing skills of 6th grade students.
