A conversation about Applications of Intersectional Inequality Index within Brazilian Education and the new IDEB
A conversation about Applications of Intersectional Inequality Index within Brazilian Education and the new IDEB
Intersectional Inequities Index: Applications for Measuring Educational Quality with Equity in Brazil
Date:
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
We introduced the Intersectional Inequities Index (III), capable of capturing inequities in educational results according to an arbitrary number of comparisons -- e.g., according to dimensions of gender, race/color, socioeconomic level and disabilities -- in a single indicator. We compute the III for reading proficiency among 2nd year students assessed between August and October 2023 by Equidade.info, document levels and trends from III to schools, for 5 states and for Brazil. We also defined the Quality with Equity (IQE) index – which penalizes proficiency, a pedagogical criterion, for intersectional inequities in different parts of the performance distribution – and we compute IQE levels and trends for schools, states and Brazil using the same data.
About Guilherme Lichand
Guilherme is proudly Brazilian. His research focuses on sources of educational inequities in the global South and on solutions with the potential to overturn them. He holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. He was previously the UNICEF Professor of Child Well-being and Development at the University of Zurich. Guilherme is also a co-founder of Brazilian EdTech Movva, a student success management system supporting vulnerable students graduate college. He was acknowledged by the Schwab Foundation as top-10 Brazilian social entrepreneur in 2020 (post-Covid legacy) and by MIT Technology Review as the top under-35 Brazilian innovator in 2014. His research has been published in numerous scientific journals, including Nature Human Behavior, and campaigns featuring his work won multiple awards, including at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
