About us

This line of research focuses on the quality of early childhood education, with special emphasis on early childhood educators as a profession, pedagogical practices in the classroom and the assessment of early childhood development.

This line of research focuses on the study, mainly experimental, of the association between cognitive, neural and teaching, learning and evaluation processes, incorporating, among others, a focus on development and its predictors in specific areas such as mathematics and language

This line studies sustainable and large-scale school improvement processes, especially in schools that serve students growing-up in conditions of social exclusion and vulnerability. Also, in collaboration with other lines, it analyzes the impact of recent educational reforms in the achievement of their objectives, and the contribution of these reforms to the improvement of the quality and equity of the school system.

This line of research studies teachers in their professional dimension, professional development programs to foster teacher learning quality and their relevance for inclusive classrooms and schools. It also studies the implementation of recent reforms to strengthen the teaching profession (Teacher Professional Development Law).

This line of research focuses on the teaching and learning processes of the different disciplines in order to improve learning opportunities and results in mathematics, science, technology and language.