ELRC’s Somalia education evaluation report recognized as a Purdue Fall 2025 Featured Dataset

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The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) recognized the College of Education’s Evaluation and Learning Research Center’s “Somalia Education Evaluation Reports” as a PURR Fall 2025 Featured Dataset. This selective distinction acknowledges exemplary publications that align with PURR’s mission for open, accessible research data.   

This project examined the effectiveness of educational models in Somalia to allow USAID and the Somali Ministry of Education and Higher Education to make data-driven decision-making about replication and scale-up and to provide foundational data that informs benchmarking and policy decisions.

About the ELRC

The Evaluation and Learning Research Center (ELRC) applies social science theory and research methods to design, engineer, research, and evaluate social innovations that promote learning, development, and justice.

About PURR

The Purdue University Research Repository provides an online, collaborative working space and data-sharing platform to support Purdue researchers and their collaborators. PURR publishes and archives digital datasets from researchers across campus and welcomes all kinds of open data from images and videos to spreadsheets and source code.