Education sector analysis and data literacy
Offered by
United Nations Children’s Fund

Course details
- Length
- 7 hours
- Effort
- 45 minutes per lesson
- Level
- Advanced
- Language
- English
- Venue
- Online
- Certificate
- Yes
- Price
- Free
Course summary
In nine modules, take a journey in understanding and utilizing basic concepts in education sector analysis and data literacy.
Topics
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Quality education
- Statistics
- Education
- Data processing and analysis
- Subject
- Education
- Keywords
- education
- children
- data literacy
- planning
- programming
About this course
In nine modules, take a journey in understanding and utilizing basic concepts in education sector analysis and data literacy.
Structure
This e-Course is composed of nine modules:
- Basic Concepts
- Education Sector analysis, planning and programming
- Equity in Education
- Enrolment, internal efficiency, and out-of-school children
- Learning and its Assessment
- External Efficiency
- Cost and Financing
- Out-of-School children initiative
- Using evidence for education programming and policy
Length
It will take you about 5-7 hours to complete this self-paced e-Course. Each lesson covers a different topic and takes about 30-45 minutes hour to complete.
Target audience
All staff, in particular staff working in programmatic areas such as Education. The course is also suitable to M&E staff, and external actors working in education.
Learning objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand and utilise basic concepts such as measurement and indicator
- Recognise and understand major analytical and planning tools in education
- Explain what is meant by equity in education and how it can be analysed
- Differentiate approaches to analysing enrolment, internal efficiency, and out-of-school children
- Recall the concept of learning and different ways to assess it
- Identify approaches to analysing the economic and social impacts of education as well as approaches to analysing the cost and financing of education
- Have knowledge about the UNICEF-UIS Out-of-school children Initiative and how it can be implemented at country level
- Demonstrate how to assess the strength of evidence used to inform education programming and policy choices, including understanding different types of evidence, principles of high quality evidence, and more.