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Meeting of the Community of Practice on Education Policy Impact Evaluation

The main focus will be educational data in the context of counterfactual impact evaluations across EU countries.

16 October 2024
Brussels

Meeting topic

The topic of this third meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) is educational data, gathered both through administrative procedures and surveys. The presentations and discussions of the meeting will focus on the availability and suitability of educational data for counterfactual impact evaluations across EU countries.

Who can attend

  • policy makers active at the national, regional and local levels
  • members of the civil society, including social partners
  • education practitioners

Register today

The meeting is available to registered members of the Community of Practice.

If you would like to become a member of the Community of Practice and join this meeting, register before 4 October.

About the Community of Practice

The Community of Practice fosters the collaboration between public administration officials, external evaluators and education stakeholders. It aims to create an appropriate environment for sharing experience and knowledge on counterfactual impact evaluation of education policies.

The activities of this community are part of the Learning Lab on investing in quality of education and training.

Location

Albert Borschette Congress Center 

Rue Froissart 36

1040 Etterbeek,  Brussels

Programme

9.00 - 9.30Registration and welcoming coffee
9.30 - 9.40Welcome and introductory remarks
 Rossella Cravetto, Directorate General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), European Commission
9.40 - 9.50Introducing today’s topic: data on education
 Silvia Granato, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
09.50 - 10.30Investing in education 2024
 Marco Montanari, Directorate General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), European Commission
10.30 - 11.00Coffee break
11.00 - 12.00Keynote speech
 Thierry Rocher, Director for Evaluation at the Directorate of Evaluation, Forecasting and Performance Monitoring (DEPP), Ministry of Education, France
12.00 - 12.30Case study from Portugal
 Pedro Luis Silva, Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, University of Porto
12.30 - 14.00Lunch break
14.00 - 14.30The public value of learning how to use administrative data
 Josep Amer Mestre, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
14.30 - 15.00Large scale assessment surveys and their use for counterfactual impact evaluation (CIE)
 Alec Kennedy, Research and Analysis Unit, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
15.00 - 15.40Case study from Luxembourg
 Lynn Lagodny, SCRIPT, Luxembourg
15.40 - 16.15 Discussion on administrative and survey data in EU countries
16.15 - 16.30Concluding remarks and next steps
 Rossella Cravetto, Directorate General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), European Commission