Capacity Development Tools

The UIS offers a wide range of resources and tools to help countries strengthen the collection, quality and use of their data to monitor progress and achieve the SDG 4-Education 2030 goals. 

Metadata for the Global and Thematic Indicators for the Follow-Up and Review of SDG 4 and Education 2030

Mapping potential data sources to monitor SDG 4

• Matrix: SDG 4 Data Mapping Questionnaire 
• Results Reporting Template for the SDG 4 Data Mapping Questionnaire 

Data quality analysis: Administrative routine data systems

• Matrix: Data Quality Assessment Framework for Administrative Data
• Manual and Code of Practice
• Data collection instruments
• Interview protocol

Data quality analysis: Data on government expenditure on education

• Mapping of education financing flows and data sources
• Matrix: Data Quality Assessment Framework for Finance Data

Data quality analysis: Education household surveys

• Matrix: Data Quality Assessment Framework for Household Surveys
• Institutional environment assessment for household surveys
• Code of Practice
• Manual
• Summary template of data quality assessment results

Learning assessment studies: Alignment with global reporting scales

• Catalogue 2.0 of Learning Assessments Questionnaire
• Catalogue 2.0 of Learning Assessments Manual
• Principles of Good Practice in Learning Assessments
• Quick Guide for Implementing a National Assessment

From assessment to recommendations: Drafting the National Strategy for the Development of Education Statistics (NSDES)

• Manual: Guidelines for Country-Level Design of the National Strategy for the Development of Education Statistics
• Data quality assessment framework mapping for NSDES
• Practical tools

Monitoring education participation

• Framework for Monitoring Children and Adolescents who are Out-of-School or at Risk of Dropping Out
• Brief on monitoring framework