Educometrika
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Technical consulting for education departments

Technical support for state and municipal education departments across the whole policy cycle: from diagnosing the system to evaluating results.

Education public policyEducation indicatorsPolicy and program evaluationEducation data analysis

01What problem this area addresses

Education departments handle many demands at once, with small technical teams and deadlines set by the school calendar, budget and management cycles. Data exists, but it is often spread across different systems and seldom reaches decision-makers in usable form.

Consulting helps the department define the problem clearly, set priorities and track whether actions are working, without replacing the system's own team.

02Questions education departments often face

  1. Q1What are the most urgent problems in the system, and where should we start?
  2. Q2Are the targets in the education plan being met?
  3. Q3How can information now held in separate spreadsheets and systems be organized?
  4. Q4Which programs should be kept, adjusted or ended?
  5. Q5How can the technical team be prepared to continue the work afterwards?

03How Educometrika approaches the problem

  1. 01

    Listening and problem definition

    Meetings with leadership and teams to understand context, constraints and what needs to be decided.

  2. 02

    Data-based diagnosis

    Review and analysis of available data to describe the system's situation precisely.

  3. 03

    Work plan

    Priorities, actions, owners, indicators and timeline agreed with the department.

  4. 04

    Follow-up

    Monitoring routines and periodic reviews, with method transfer to the local team.

04Data and methods

Data

  • School Census
  • External assessments (national and local)
  • Attendance and enrollment
  • Staff and budget records
  • Information from schools and teams

Methods

  • Descriptive and comparative analysis
  • Indicator development
  • Strategic planning
  • Theory of change
  • Target monitoring

05Possible deliverables

System diagnosisStrategic or action planIndicator and target matrixMonitoring dashboardsTechnical briefs for leadershipTraining for the technical team

06When this kind of support makes sense

  • At the start of a new administration, to organize priorities.
  • When reviewing education plans or multi-year planning.
  • When many programs are running with little clarity about their effects.
  • When the team needs technical support for a specific decision.

07Related topics

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Is your system facing a similar problem?

Describe the context and the open questions. The team will assess how it can contribute.

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All areas

Education public policyDesign and implementation of education policies and programs that account for the real conditions of execution in schools.Education data analysisOrganizing and analyzing enrollment, attendance, progression and learning data to answer concrete management questions.Educational assessmentPlanning and developing learning assessments that produce useful information for teachers, schools and management.Psychometrics and IRTMeasurement methods that ensure an assessment measures what it intends to and that results can be compared.Education indicatorsBuilding indicators that show the system's situation clearly and allow targets to be tracked over time.Policy and program evaluationEvaluations that check whether a policy was implemented as planned and whether it produced the expected results.Data science in educationData integration, statistical and predictive models and monitoring systems to support decisions in school systems.Artificial intelligence in educationUsing artificial intelligence on concrete school system problems, with risk assessment and without adding complexity for schools.