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Olivia Johnston; Suzanne Macqueen; Wei Zhang; Nerida Spina; Rebecca Spooner-Lane – Educational Studies, 2025
Many schools choose to organise students into classes according to their perceived "ability", despite evidence that the practice is not beneficial for students, overall. Class grouping by "ability" can exacerbate existing social inequalities by segregating students according to pre-existing educational advantage, which has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ability Grouping, Student Placement, Secondary Schools
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Stephen Downes – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2023
Data literacy is the ability to collect, manage, evaluate, and apply data, in a critical manner. It is a relatively new field of study, dating only from the 2010s. It includes the skills necessary to discover and access data, manipulate data, evaluate data quality, conduct analysis using data, interpret results of analyses, and understand the…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Data Analysis, Ethics, Data Use
Jane Kalista – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2023
These Guidelines and accompanying Toolkit aim to generate a diagnosis of the education in emergencies data ecosystem at a given point in time, mainly by evaluating the opportunities for integrating humanitarian EiE data systems with development and national institutional education information systems. They include approaches and tools for the…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Crisis Management, Educational Needs, Educational Development
Díaz, Victoria E.; McKeown, Stephanie; Peña, Camilo – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2023
This project reviews data collection practices regarding race, ethnicity and ancestry (REA) in post-secondary institutions (PSIs) in Canada, as well as in other relevant sectors (e.g., health, K-12 education, government agencies). The goal of the project was to identify promising practices and to develop recommendations to guide REA data…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, Student Characteristics, Race