Over the past decade, there has been a shift in the discourse within the global education sector from one of access to one of access plus learning.

We conclude with key findings and policy recommendations. These sections are accompanied by an interactive database of digital tools for real-time education data. We elaborate on important factors such as tool usability, functions, and context, which can help decisionmakers select the most appropriate tool for their setting (potentially reducing the need to develop new ones where they already exist), or inform the design of a new tool. Informed by survey responses from the developers of over 20 such tools, we classify tools based on a typology of their purpose.

Next, we focus our attention on one part of the puzzle-digital tools for data collection.

After providing brief background on the state of data and measurement in the global education sector, we explore the who, why, and for whom of real-time data collection and use in education systems. In this report, we provide an overview of the critical factors related to real-time data collection in education to support policymakers, practitioners, and researchers across the globe in either developing new tools or selecting from the landscape of existing ones.

Teachers tools for data analysis