RAKIDUAM - Knowledge

The urgent necessity for all children in our country to learn the fundamentals during their school years, has led the Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE) to study the acquisition and development of skills in mathematics, language, science and technology, considering the advances in research in the area of neuro-cognition. A better understanding of these processes enables teaching strategies to be developed that make it possible to overcome learning problems existing in the school system. This is the case in the use of cutting-edge technologies based on online games for learning science and mathematics for primary and middle school children , or in the deve- lopment of assessment instruments, and teaching reading and writing for primary school education, with the participation of classroom teachers. At the same time the Center has researched the factors that affect the trajectories of improvement at the schools, delivering important keys for the management of the school boards and leaders, and has developed a territorial intelligence platform to support public policies in the area. In the field of pedagogy, its researchers have developed the first standards for the initial education of teachers in the areas of language and mathematics and for nursery school education. Contribu- tions have also been made in the Center to knowledge about the teaching profession, through a national representative study of teachers, which has served as the basis for the preparation of the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2013/2014 and the development of the Regional Strategy for Tea- chers, led by the Unesco. Principal Institution: Universidad de Chile. Associated Institutions: Universidad de Concepción, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Lines of Research Teaching and learning: language, mathematics, science and technology. Education in early childhood. Development of teachers and teaching professionalism. Academic improvement and educational policy. Cognition, learning and information technology. 43 Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE)