REVERS-ED is a project funded under the HORIZON program (HORIZON- CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01 call). The objective is twofold: firstly, to utilise the extensive educational data available at national and regional levels to map and analyse educational inequalities from a longitudinal perspective, identifying key characteristics and trends; and secondly, to conduct an in-depth examination of existing interventions designed to mitigate these inequalities, to identify successful educational interventions as recognised by scientific research, to gain a better understanding of how and to what extent they contribute to improving learning outcomes. Drawing on that, REVERS-ED will facilitate that effective interventions can be translated into policies and replicated to advance into more inclusive educational systems with better learning outcomes for all. REVERS-ED will also allow a better knowledge of the type of data to collect and how to collect them to make informed decisions towards overcoming educational inequalities in the short, medium and long term.
REVERS-ED adopts a mixed-method approach to collect and analyse data to achieve these aims. First, longitudinal data will be collected to understand the sources of educational inequalities and how they evolved over the years. Types of longitudinal surveys relevant to REVERS-ED’s object of study include, among others: surveys of school-leavers, graduates or trainees, often used to assess the outcomes of education or training in the medium or long term; birth control studies, which follow over time all births or a sample of them in a particular location; and repeated measures studies, which repeatedly measure the same variables in the same way in each sample unit. Second, qualitative data sources will complement this quantitative information, based on co-creating scientific knowledge with end-users and other stakeholders, aiming at understanding how these inequalities are generated and how to reverse them.