This guide defines education as a systematic process of learning new information through an institution.
Please apply the search strategies outlined in Introduction to Finding Data with the keywords below to help orchestrate a search to find datasets related to education.
Keywords: primary school, secondary school, trade school, post-secondary school, college, university, literacy, learning, training
Provided by the U.S. Department of Education this database hosts information about primary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions in the United States.
Provided by the National Center for Educational Statistics, DataLab is focused on reports, data, statistics, and assessments in the U.S. including everything from attendance and enrollment to staffing and school programing.
The data repository hosts documentation for the TIMSS/TIMSS Advanced, PRILS, ICCS, ICILS, REDS, CIVED, TEDS-M, SITES, and Reading Literacy Study assessments. A list of memberships and participating institutions for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) can be found here.
Provided by the National Center for Educational Statistics the IDE is home to information on more than 80 national and subnational educational systems that host surveys, assessments, and reports on the performance of students and adults in the educational sector. Assessments include PISA, PIRLS, TIMSS, PIAAC, TALIS, and ICILS.
Data for the Southern and East Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SEACME) uses this database to host their data on education in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, eSwatini, Tanzania’s mainland and Zanzibar, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
This multidisciplinary database hosts international data on education, specifically administrative data, household surveys, learning assessments, financial/expenditure data, and population data. Information provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Education Disclaimer: Under FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), students have the right to access and review their education records, request corrections to inaccurate information, and control the disclosure of these records. They can also choose to limit the release of directory information, which includes details like name and enrollment status, to maintain their privacy. FERPA ensures that educational institutions must uphold these rights while handling and sharing student records. This may limit access to protected information and data.