How Can Decision-Makers Assess EdTech Interventions for Cost-Effectiveness to Enable Better Investments?

As education decision-makers increasingly look to EdTech tools and interventions to help catalyse impact on education outcomes, cost-effectiveness is among their most important concerns. Put simply, cost-effectiveness is about how much an intervention will cost to deliver a specific level of impact over a given length of time. But while effectively calculating the cost-effectiveness of EdTech interventions is crucial to maximising the impact of scarce resources available for investment in education, it is not a straightforward process. Given the depth of the learning crisis in many low- and middle-income countries, significant pressure to adopt EdTech solutions exists, which can be risky without adequate consideration for the total cost of implementing such interventions and inconsistencies that exist around learning outcome measurement.