SECTOR
Education Programs
Education programs around the world can benefit from the help of mobile tools. They can track student attendance and performance, help recruit and train new teachers, and serve as job aids to improve lesson plan adherence, as well as the safety and sanitation of classrooms. CommCare has been used around the world in all kinds of educational programs, from tracking teacher growth against personalized plans to recording and comparing school and student performance to local and past averages.
Mobile tools can help to improve quality of services, inform decision-making, and strengthen accountability. CommCare offers features to strengthen teacher professional development programs by equipping instructional coaches with mobile tools for monitoring teacher performance and providing individualized support.
Benefits of Mobile Data Collection in Education Programs
Track student and teacher attendance and performance over time to develop strategies to improve.
Multimedia capabilities can help introduce teachers to new pedagogical strategies.
Compare collected attendance and performance records to past data or local averages.
Offline capabilities allow the application to be used in even the most rural, underserved schools.
Collected data are uploaded in real time so supervisors can assess schools’ performance on relevant indicators.
Applications can be translated into multiple languages to be used across regions.
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Featured CommCare-Based Education Projects
Save the Children Thailand
Save the Children Thailand utilizes CommCare to streamline student enrollment and track attendance in schools along the Thai-Myanmar border. With the School Monitoring application, official enrollment records are maintained, attendance is monitored, and reasons for absenteeism are recorded. The app allows for regular assessment visits and facilitates the creation of student ID cards with individual photos. Additionally, the app has been translated into multiple languages for deployment in other regions. Dimagi provided training to the initial 23 users, and Save the Children plans to scale up to 100 users.
Anseye Pou Ayiti Haiti
Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti) utilizes CommCare to recruit, train, and equip teacher-leaders, while monitoring their performance against personalized growth plans. The CommCare application aids pedagogical coaches in tracking teacher development based on individual professional growth plans and the organization’s competencies framework. It also facilitates classroom observations and coaching sessions.
Learn how CommCare helps programs around the world
More than 2000 projects across 80 countries rely on CommCare for their mobile data collection and reporting needs
Noukod
“We are ready to design applications that are everything from simple and straightforward to those with challenging and unique designs and use cases.”
- Ted Barlow, President
Sehgal Foundation
“CommCare gave us the ability to control the experience of our fieldbased data collectors, which drastically reduced human error.”
- Bhawna Mangla, Senior Research Associate
Let There Be Light International
“Thank you for helping us to gather data, refine programming, and spread the message about our impact in fighting global climate change and extreme poverty.”
- Sarah Baird, Executive Director
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