Educational research
Educational research & evaluation platform
A personalised discussion focused on your project, methodology, reporting needs and evaluation goals.
What is Purple?
Purple brings participant tracking, surveys, programme monitoring, educational outcomes and impact evaluation together in one secure platform, helping research teams generate cleaner data, reduce reporting burden and produce stronger evidence.
Data Collection. Evaluation. Evidence. Insight.
One connected platform.
Educational research at scale
Strong evidence starts with well-managed data.
Educational research projects rarely depend on a single dataset. Schools, participants, surveys, programme delivery, educational outcomes and reporting requirements must all be managed consistently throughout the project. When these processes sit across disconnected systems and spreadsheets, research teams can spend valuable time reconciling information rather than analysing and learning from it.
School recruitment and onboarding
Monitor which settings have joined, completed onboarding and supplied the information required for the project.
Participant and cohort management
Maintain accurate records across participants, delivery groups and comparison groups throughout the research lifecycle.
Survey administration
Coordinate baseline, midpoint and endpoint data collection across pupils, staff and other stakeholder groups.
Educational outcome data
Bring attendance, behaviour, achievement, suspension and demographic information into the evaluation process.
Data quality and completeness
Identify outstanding information, inconsistencies and gaps before they create problems within the final dataset.
Evaluator and funder reporting
Prepare structured datasets and clearer project information without repeatedly rebuilding reports from disconnected sources.
Purple brings these connected research activities into one secure environment, helping teams reduce administration while improving the consistency of the evidence collected.
Why research teams choose Purple
Monitor participation more effectively
Keep registrations, engagement and attendance visible in one programme view.
Understand educational outcomes
Connect participation with attendance, behaviour, achievement and inclusion insight.
Produce stronger evidence
Bring delivery, feedback and outcomes together for funders and school partners.
Improve programme design
Use connected insight to understand what is working and where adjustments may be needed.
Support funder reporting
Create clearer reporting conversations without relying on disconnected evidence sources.
Demonstrate impact with confidence
Move beyond participation numbers toward a richer understanding of outcomes and change.
EEF data collection panel
EEF Data Collection Panel
Purple has been accepted onto the Education Endowment Foundation's Data Collection Panel, supporting evaluators and research teams that require reliable, scalable education data collection. Purple helps research projects securely manage school onboarding, surveys, data collection, cohort management, evaluator exports and project reporting within one connected environment. This reflects Purple's focus on reducing operational burden while helping teams collect consistent, high-quality data for evaluation.
Supporting high-quality educational data collection
Purple brings school participation, survey responses, programme information and educational outcomes together securely, helping research teams manage complex data collection projects across multiple settings.
Research data journey
From school participation to evaluation-ready evidence
01 — Recruit & onboard schools
Monitor recruitment, onboarding and participation across every setting involved in the project.
02 — Collect consistent data
Collect information consistently from schools, participants and stakeholders.
03 — Build evaluation datasets
Combine educational outcomes, participant information and survey responses into one connected dataset.
04 — Generate accurate evidence
Create stronger evidence, clearer reporting and cleaner outputs for research teams, funders and evaluators.
One platform.
One trusted dataset.
Flexible pricing for research projects
Pricing is tailored to the scale of the project, the number of participating settings and the data collection, survey, reporting and evaluation support required.
Pricing depends on
Number of participating schools or settings · Number of participants · Survey and questionnaire requirements · Data collection scope · Reporting complexity · Evaluation requirements
Everything included
Project setup · School onboarding · Participation monitoring · Survey administration · Education data collection · Structured reporting · Evaluator exports · Training and ongoing support
No fixed packages or hidden add-ons. We’ll scope Purple around the evidence your research project needs to generate.
Educational research FAQs
Working with schools or delivering a wider programme?
Purple also supports schools and educational organisations with connected data, participation tracking, surveys and impact evaluation—making it easier to align project evidence with the day-to-day context of delivery.
Bring school participation, surveys, programme delivery and educational outcomes together in one secure environment. Discover how Purple can support your project from initial data collection through to evaluation-ready reporting.