IEA INSIDER 2025
IEA Research Award Winners 2025 This year, the Richard M. Wolf Memorial Award for an outstanding paper goes to Natalia López-Hornickel. The Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Awards goes to both Lene Nors Nielsen for an outstanding master’s theses, and to Dihao Leng for an outstanding doctoral dissertation.
IEA Richard M. Wolf Memorial Award
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It is not just your opinion: Gender equity endorsement of Latin American students and their peers at school
All models are specified in disaggregated form. This approach enables us to distinguish the variance explained by observed student-level factors across schools from that explained by observed school-level factors. Our findings show that civic knowledge and open classroom discussion are strongly linked to greater support for gender equality. Students with higher civic knowledge scores accounted for 34 percent of the explained variance in gender equity endorsement, making it the strongest individual predictor. Open- classroom discussions contributed an additional 10 percent, highlighting the importance of inclusive, participatory learning environments. In contrast, students who endorsed authoritarian ideas—such as support for unchecked authority—were significantly less likely to express egalitarian views; authoritarianism accounted for 29 percent of the explained variance and was a strong negative predictor. Crucially, these patterns were not solely individual: the broader school climate also mattered. Students attending schools with higher overall levels of authoritarianism showed lower support for gender equality, regardless of their personal beliefs, demonstrating a clear contextual effect. This insight is reflected in the title of the paper: “It is not just your opinion.” We also found that students from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds tended to show greater support for gender equity, with socioeconomic status explaining 7 percent of the variance. However, school- level factors can help to mitigate these disparities. For instance, students in schools with more open classroom discussion and more socioeconomically advantaged peer
In this paper we examined what shapes young people’s attitudes toward gender equity across five Latin American countries: Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru. Gender status beliefs contribute to the gender equality present in societies. Thus, the endorsement of attitudes toward gender equality, or, in the opposite case, the adherence to sexism, can alter the reality of gender equality in various contexts. In the case of adolescents, these attitudes can influence their life decisions and behaviors. Latin America is a challenging context, since there is a worrisome level of prejudice against women among secondary students. Drawing on data from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) of 2016, the Latin American module, we explored how civic learning, school climate, and ideological beliefs are associated with whether students support equal rights for men and women. We fit a series of average population models and regression models, incorporating their survey design, to make inferences about the population of 8th-grade students in the participating countries. We use these different models to assess the unique and combined contributions of each selected predictor, as well as its indirect effects on gender equity endorsement.
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