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Education public policy: from design to implementation

Design and implementation of education policies and programs that account for the real conditions of execution in schools.

Policy and program evaluationConsulting for education departmentsEducation indicatorsEducation data analysis

01What problem this area addresses

Many education policies are well formulated on paper and lose strength during implementation: routines, instruments, clear owners or adequate resources are missing.

Work in this area connects the problem diagnosis to policy design and to how the policy will work in practice, with indicators defined from the start.

02Questions education departments often face

  1. Q1Does the proposed policy respond to the problem identified in the diagnosis?
  2. Q2Which schools or students should be prioritized?
  3. Q3What processes, materials and routines are needed for implementation?
  4. Q4How can we tell, during execution, whether the policy is reaching schools?
  5. Q5What do research and other systems' experience say about this type of intervention?

03How Educometrika approaches the problem

  1. 01

    Diagnosis

    Defining the problem and its causes from data and from teams' knowledge.

  2. 02

    Design

    Theory of change, target population, components, costs and owners.

  3. 03

    Implementation

    Workflows, instruments, timeline and training for the teams involved.

  4. 04

    Monitoring and evaluation

    Process and outcome indicators, with scheduled review points.

04Data and methods

Data

  • Learning and progression indicators
  • School and territory data
  • Administrative records
  • Interviews and focus groups with teams

Methods

  • Theory of change and logic model
  • Evidence review
  • Implementation analysis
  • Targeting and prioritization criteria
  • Monitoring matrix

05Possible deliverables

Policy design documentTheory of change and logic modelTargeting criteriaImplementation manual and workflowsMonitoring and evaluation plan

06When this kind of support makes sense

  • Before launching a new policy or program.
  • When an existing policy is not producing the expected result.
  • When scaling a pilot to the whole system.
  • When adapting to new national rules or policies.

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

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