This article presents the findings of the most commonly used techniques for measuring intergenerational educational mobility and discusses empirical evidence available about Latin America and Colombia as of 2012. The scientific bibliographic research process entailed checking sociology, economics, and education journals, databases (JSTOR, EBSCOhost, Redalyc, and Scielo), and other information reservoirs. The findings indicate that there is no consensus about measurements, but the most common methods are transition matrices, Markov models,