Number of students per teacher during the reporting period.
Number of students per teacher during the reporting period.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used.
This metric is intended to capture the ratio of students to teachers during the reporting period, often used as a proxy of teacher workload, educational investment, or instructional efficiency.
In some contexts, this metric can serve as an indicator of whether the outcome being sought by an investor or organization is occurring (the WHAT dimension of impact). For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.