Susana Claro
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Susana Claro
Assistant Professor, School of Government,
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Susana Claro is an assistant professor in the School of Government at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and co-founder of Enseña Chile. Her research examines educational opportunity gaps among school-age students, as well as the role of teachers, motivation, and socio-emotional skills. She is a research collaborator with the Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS) at Stanford University, the CORE District Consortium in California, and the Global Learning Lab at Teach for All. Claro earned her BSc in civil engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, an MA in education from Harvard University along with an MA in economics and a PhD in the economics of education from Stanford University.
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Publications by Susana Claro
This study used data from California CORE Districts to explore whether changes in students' self-reported social-emotional learning (SEL) predicted changes in academic outcomes and attendance. The findings revealed that within-student changes in SEL…
Evidence from California’s CORE School Districts
This paper examines which social-emotional skills are most important for student success and how they vary among student subgroups. It uses longitudinal data from over 200,000 fourth through seventh grade students in California to explore growth…
Evidence from California’s CORE Districts
This paper uses a large dataset to confirm that self-management skills predict student success and are a better predictor of student learning than other socio-emotional skills. Students with higher levels of self-management experience almost 80 days…