Guilherme Lichand

Guilherme is an Assistant Professor of Education at the Stanford GSE. 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.

King Center Supported Research

2023 - 2024 Academic Year | Global Development Research Funding

Validating and Piloting the Stanford Rapid Online Assessment of Reading in Brazil

In low- and middle-income countries, there is often no consensus on how to measure reading ability. Measurement strategies used in these settings often disrupt school routine for several days at a time, take months to produce results, and are very costly. Test applications are seldom adapted to children with special needs and cannot detect learning disabilities such as dyslexia. This proposal requests seed funding to adapt and validate the Stanford Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) in Brazil, taking advantage of local partnerships and research infrastructure that would allow producing results for a nationally representative sample of schools.