ESDA – Introduction

E-Platform for School Development and Accountability (ESDA) is a one-stop system for managing school self-evaluation data:

• used by schools to collect and manage self-evaluation data, including the administration of anonymous online Stakeholder Survey (SHS) and survey of Assessment Program for Affective and Social Outcomes (APASO), performing analysis of data collected, and publishing the related data reports, thus promoting their efficiency in conducting school self-evaluation (SSE) and alleviating teachers’ workload.
• used by schools to submit the Key Performance Measures (KPM) data, including the relevant data of SHS and APASO, to the EDB through simple procedures, to help the EDB to produce reference data.
• as compared with its previous version, newly provided the function of conducting surveys via tablet computers and
• strengthened the security, for example, schools need to use the Common Log-on System (CLO) for authentication when submitting data to the EDB.