Driving education Reform through Data and Advocacy: insights from the implementation of Education report card in Indonesia

• In Event: System approach for transformation: the case of Indonesia

Proposal

From various data on student learning outcomes, Indonesia is aware of a learning crisis that must be resolved immediately to ensure that its human resources are ready to face global competition. Therefore, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (MOECRT) made efforts to reform the education system to improve learning. One of them is by restructuring the management of the education data system in the form of education report cards.

Since 2022, MOECRT has launched education report card. The Report Card as a new platform of education database, is a follow up of the National Assessment program, an evaluation system that focuses on literacy, numeracy, character competencies and on learning environment conditions that support an effective learning process. The Education Report Card therefore is a platform that contains a comprehensive National Assessment report and holistic cross-sector analysis for each schools and region. Thus the Education Report Card integrates various educational data to help schools and the District Education Office identify achievements and root causes, reflects, and then design data-based improvement strategies.

Education report cards are used to improve the quality of data-based decision-making, especially in the form of what is known as data-based planning. Data-based planning is the process of planning activities and budgets in accordance with the priority problems faced by each educational entity as a result of education report card analysis. With this report card, more than 400,000 schools and more than 500 local governments in Indonesia will: 1) make the right decisions about programs and activities based on the most important issues to be resolved; 2) make decisions regarding more efficient and effective use of the budget as a result of prioritization of programs and activities; 3) make harmony between planning carried out by schools and those carried out by the regions; 4) create an efficiency on educational data collection system that avoids multiple data.

As Indonesia is a vast archipelagic country, to ensure that this reform can be carried out, various advocacy strategies have been carried out. These advocacy strategies include: 1) Technical assistance, training to school principals, teachers and school supervisors conducted online and offline; 2) Supervision, school supervisors accompany and guide schools closely and periodically in using education report cards and carrying out planning, as well as participating in resolving existing problems.; 3) Online Training, MOECRT creates online training modules where school teams, both principals and teachers, can learn on repost cards and the use of it; and 4) Learning Community, community that routinely carry out learning activities related to the use of report cards in planning.

Author

• Santoso Hadisucipto, Article 33 Indonesia