Here you will find databases and other types of resources in education and beyond that may be useful in the context of ILSAs:
Education GPS
Education GPS, a real-time database was developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) based on its extensive research throughout the world, provides comprehensive, constantly updated information and internationally comparable data on education policies and practices.
The database allows users to perform analyses at the country level or across countries by choosing from a wide variety of themes and data and to create customized reports. The data can be explored by topic or by publication, and education policies can be investigated by navigating the visual network of education policy, which offers in-depth information about the different topics, links to related (OECD) sources and glossary terms, and much more.
ITEMS: Instructional Topics in Educational Measurement
The Instructional Topics in Educational Measurement (ITEMS) Portal, made available by the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), provides free of charge, curated resources for instructors and their students in quantitative courses as well as specialists working in other contexts interested in educational measurement and assessment. ITEMS modules, the core piece of the portal, cover basically three content areas: (1) foundations of educational measurement, (2) assessment design and implementation, and (3) interdisciplinary frontiers. The modules are presented as short self-contained lessons with various supporting resources to facilitate self-guided learning, team-based discussions, and professional instruction. Content is delivered within a multi-platform digital shell that allows for free navigation through a menu, contains voice-over slides and videos throughout, and includes easy access to supplementary materials such as glossaries, data sets, sample code or applets, vetted online resources, and short learning exercises.
OECD Data Explorer
OECD Data Explorer is a statistical online platform that includes comprehensive data for OECD countries and selected non-member economies on a broad variety of themes, “Education and Training” being just one of them. The data is organized into datasets so that users can either work within individual datasets or across datasets and build tables (with selected variables), extract and download large volumes of data, and view detailed metadata on methodology and sources.
World Bank EdStats
World Bank EdStats, a platform on education statistics developed by the World Bank, includes approx. 2,500 internationally comparable education indicators for literacy, teachers, population, education expenditures, and school access, progression, and completion—for pre-primary to tertiary education. Sources for these indicators include educational ILSAs, household surveys in more than 100 countries, and projection data. The platform allows users to gain a global view of education through animated charts and maps, tables, and accompanying analyses.