Learning Assessments
data from national and international exam and assessment series such as the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality (SACMEQ) (South Africa XXX), PASEC, DHS reading assessments, PRYAM India surveys. Assessment can be from the entire student population or a representative sample. As education focus turns increasingly to ensuring quality, assessments are gaining in importance. The EPDC database includes information from 16 assessments and exams.
Detailed data
A special focus of the EPDC database is data by sub-national region and pupil background- wealth quintile, education of mother, ethnic group, urban or rural residence. Such sub-national data illustrates the often large education inequality within countries and pinpoints which sub-groups of children are most disadvantaged. EPDC's unique structure and search engines enable the housing of this detailed information into one searchable database.
Refined Searches
The EPDC search interface allows users to refine and filter their criteria along 11 categories – country, indicator, year, gender, age, school level, urban/rural, sub-national regions, household characteristics. The guided search function enables users to identify exactly what data is available.
Hierarchical organization
The search interface is organized hierarchically from the general categories to greater detail. For example, the 120 indicators are organized into 12 categories, including: access to school, completion and progression, gender parity indices, teachers and schools, etc. The users can select a general category for a search, or drill down to greater detail.
