PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Ciencias Sociales

Santiago, Chile

2016 - A la fecha

Centro de Medición MIDE UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2007 - 2009

Centro de Medición MIDE UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2009 - 2011

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement

Alemania, 2020

Dr Carrasco received the Wolf Award for his paper Civic knowledge and open classroom discussion: explaining tolerance of corruption among 8th-grade students in Latin America. The present piece was a joint effort with colleagues from the University of Sussex (Robin Banerjee), and the Pontificia Universidad Católica (Ernesto Treviño and Cristobal Villalobos). Using data from ICCS 2009, the article inquires about 8th graders’ tolerance of corruption from Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper proposed a conceptual model that includes the socio economic background, the exposure to open classroom discussion, civic knowledge, and the endorsement of authoritarianism from students. The paper found that students with more political proficiency and less endorsement of authoritarianism are less tolerant of corruption. Open classroom discussion indirectly contributes to this phenomenon. Schools, where teachers encourage students to express their opinions and discuss differing points of view on political and social issues, promote civic knowledge of students, and protects them from endorsing authoritarian beliefs and, as a consequence, from condoning corruption. However, results presented in the paper show that students from lower socio-economic status do not have equal access to open classroom discussion practices, and consequently also present higher tolerance for corruption, partially attributable to this learning opportunity gap. If democratic systems expect their citizens to participate in accountability efforts to prevent corruption, it is necessary that the system also provides students with adequate learning opportunities for such a task. Dr Carrasco is a full-time researcher at Centro de Medición MIDE UC, at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He holds a Doctoral degree in Psychology and a Master of Research in Psychological Methods from the University of Sussex. His research focuses on the estimation of contextual effects involving measurement and inferential problems. This line of research includes methodological challenges to national and international large-scale assessment, present in the exercise of school comparisons. Dr Carrasco’s focus is on substantive applications for civic education, learning environments research, and teacher turnover.

Comparative and International Education Society

Estados Unidos, 2018

Congratulations! We are pleased to let you know that your paper “Walk the talk! Civic knowledge, democratic values, and the role of school climate for open discussion. A moderated mediation approach” was selected for the Large Scale Cross-National Studies in Education Outstanding Early Career Paper Award. The submitted papers were outstanding this year and showcase the different applications and theoretical/conceptual orientations related to ILSAs. We therefore decided to give the award to two papers this year.