Database name |
Discipline(s) |
Country |
Available years |
Longitudinal/Cross-sectional |
Cost |
Access |
Civic Education Study (CivEd) |
Knowledge of democratic practices and institutions, as well as U.S. ninth-grade students’ attitudes toward democracy, national identity, international relations, and social cohesion and diversity |
27 countries [1] |
1999 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
Available through CD[2] |
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 - 99 (ECLS-K) |
Mathematics, reading, general knowledge and science |
27 countries [1] |
The birth cohort of the ECLS-B is a sample of children born in 2001 and followed from birth through kindergarten entry. The kindergarten class of 1998-99 cohort is a sample of children followed from kindergarten through the eighth grade. The kindergarten class of 2010-11 cohort will follow a sample of children from kindergarten through the fifth grade. |
Longitudinal |
Free |
Data freely available but restricted data requiring an administrative process for access[3] |
Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 |
Mathematics |
United States |
2002, 2004, 2006, and 2012 |
Longitudinal |
Free |
Education Longitudinal Study of 2002[4] |
Exame Nacional de Desempenho de Estudantes (ENADE) |
Administration, accounting, economics, journalism, marketing and advertising, design, law, psychology, international relations, administrative assistant, tourism, business management, human resources, financial management, operations, marketing, management |
Brazil |
2004-2011 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
INEP[5] |
ENEM |
Language, science, mathematics, humanities |
Brazil |
1998-2011 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
INEP[5] |
NAEP |
Arts, civics, economics, foreign language, geography, mathematics, reading, science, U.S. history, world history, writing, technology and engineering literacy (starting in 2014) |
United States |
1999, 2004, 2008, and 2012 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
NAEP[6] |
National Longitudinal Study of 1972 |
Vocabulary, mathematics, reading, picture-number associations, letter groups, and mosaic comparisons |
United States |
1972-1973 (base years), follow-up surveys in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, and 1986 |
Longitudinal |
Free |
DAS[7] |
PIAAC |
Literacy, numeracy, problem solving in technology-rich environments, and reading |
24 participating countries [8] |
One collection between 2011 and 2012 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
Data to be released between December 2013 and April 2014[9] |
PIRLS |
Reading |
more than 50 countries [10] |
2001, 2006 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
NCES[11] |
PISA |
Reading, mathematics and science, only one area being evaluated in each year. |
Over 70 countries [12] |
2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
PISA[13] |
Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB) |
Language and mathematics |
Brazil |
1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2011 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
INEP[5] |
TIMSS |
Mathematics and science |
Over 60 countries [14] |
1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011 |
Cross-sectional |
Free |
NCES[15] |