CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON LIFELONG LEARNING based on indicators and benchmarks

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CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON LIFELONG LEARNING
based on indicators and benchmarks
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CRELL in brief

• Established by the Directorate General for
  Education and Culture and the Joint Research
  Centre of the European Commission.
• Funded by the 6th Framework Programme.
• First researchers arrived August October 2005.
• CRELL combines fields of education, social
  science, economics, econometrics and statistics
  in an interdisciplinary approach to research.

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The political context for CRELL

• The European Union and the Lisbon Strategy
• Open method of co-ordination ? monitoring of
  progress towards strategic objectives by means of
  indicators and benchmarks.
• Increased use of indicators and benchmarks in
  education and training policy co-operation.
• Currently 29 indicators and five benchmarks used
  to monitor progress in the education and training
  domain.

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Monitoring education and training

• The monitoring instrument in ET is not fully
  developed the quality of indicators and
  comparability of existing data needs improvement.
  
• Key areas lacking relevant and comparable data
  for monitoring progress
• Key competencies, especially learning to learn
• Investment efficiency
• ICT
• Mobility
• Adult education and adult skills
• Vocational education and training
• Languages
• Professional development of teachers and trainers
• Social inclusion and active citizenship

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CRELLs mandate

• Council Conclusions
• of 24 May 2005
• on New Indicators in Education and Training
• (2005/C 141/04)
• The establishment of the research unit on
  lifelong learning at the Joint Research Centre
  at Ispra can significantly increase the
  Commissions research capacity in terms of the
  development of new indicators.

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CRELL at the Joint Research Centre

• CRELL is hosted by the Unit of Applied Statistics
  and Econometrics, JRC Ispra.
• As a Directorate General of the European
  Commission, the JRC provides scientific and
  technical support to Community policy-making.
• 7 Institutes in 5 Member States (total staff
  2,200).

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Unit of Applied Statistics and EconometricsJoint
Research Centre

• Serves European Commission Directorates General
  for Economic and Financial Affairs, Education and
  Culture, Internal Market, Research, Information
  Society and Enterprise.
• Competence includes data analysis, short term
  economic analysis, financial econometrics,
  construction of domain-specific composite
  indicators, ad hoc statistical and econometric
  modelling, uncertainty and global sensitivity
  analysis.

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Unit of Applied Statistics and EconometricsJoint
Research Centre

• JRC expertise in the development of statistical
  indicators, including composites, will support
  the Commissions monitoring instrument in the
  field of lifelong learning and active ageing.

JRC/OECD information server on composite
indicators http//farmweb.jrc.cec.eu.int/CI/
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CRELL general work programme

• Establishing networks in the field of
  indicator-based evaluation of education and
  training systems.  
• Research towards development of new indicators,
  including preparatory work for new data
  collection, and development of composite
  indicators. 
• Forecasting and modelling. Analysis of European
  ET systems and policy objectives from a
  worldwide and macro-economic perspective. 
• Supporting the Commission in its monitoring and
  reporting activities.

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Current research areas at CRELL

• Output indicators for initial VET
• Investment efficiency indicators
• Outcomes of vocational training (with T. Parveva)
• Mircea Badescu
• Mircea.Badescu_at_jrc.it
• Performance of new Member States in ET
• Participation in lifelong learning attitudes
  and practice
• Outcomes of vocational training (with M.Badescu)
• Teodora Parveva
• Teodora.Parveva_at_jrc.it

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Current research areas at CRELL (cont.)

• Indicators for active and European citizenship
• Learning to learn indicators in non-formal
  learning(with U. Fredriksson)
• Bryony Hoskins
• Bryony.Hoskins_at_jrc.it
• Learning to learn
• Teacher survey
• The attractiveness of the teaching profession
• Teachers, teaching, student self-assessment and
  student well-being in existing data (with F.
  Pennoni)

Ulf Fredriksson Ulf.Fredriksson_at_jrc.it
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Current research areas at CRELL (cont.)

• Statistical analysis of student achievement
  multivariate analysis, latent variable models,
  Item Response Theory models, composite
  indicators.
• Fulvia Pennoni
• Fulvia.Pennoni_at_jrc.it
• Longitudinal studies of student achievement
• Non-cognitive learning
• School management (with F. Pennoni)
• Daniele Vidoni
• Daniele.Vidoni_at_jrc.it

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Contact CRELL

• Co-ordinator Sarah Moore ltsarah.moore_at_jrc.itgt
• Website http//farmweb.jrc.cec.eu.int/crell/