About the project
In today’s data-rich but fragmented educational landscape, schools and education systems across Europe face increasing pressure to make evidence-informed decisions. Teachers, school leaders, and policymakers are expected to use data to improve teaching, learning, and school management, but many lack the support, training, and tools to do so effectively.
While data is being collected more than ever before, the capacity to use it meaningfully in schools remains limited. This creates a gap between the potential of data-driven education and the everyday reality in classrooms. At the same time, policymakers often operate without fully understanding the on-the-ground needs of schools and educators, which further limits the success of national strategies.
EVIDALI is a 3-year EU funded project, starting in March 2025, that addresses the question of what conditions are necessary for data literacy strategies to support the effective use of data in teaching and learning, taking into account the diversity of local contexts in European education systems.
It does so through a combined focus on policy and school-level practice. Over three years, EVIDALI will carry out a large-scale mapping of national strategies, conduct a representative survey in schools, facilitate Policy Learning Labs with policymakers and researchers, and validate good practices through direct engagement with teachers and trainers. These insights will feed into the development of a free MOOC to strengthen teacher capacity in data literacy.
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