Welcome
What are you trying to do?
Data I already have in institutional performance and educational decisions.
Your path
Create a study to hold it
A study is the container. You are not obliged to collect anything through ZStat.
Import the file
CSV for now, on the Data page. Leading zeros survive, and a column that is mostly numeric with a few words stays text rather than becoming numbers with holes in it.
Find out what you should be running
The guide for your field names the question in your own words and the procedure that answers it.
Analyse
Every result is stored with the digest of the data behind it, so you can prove later which version produced which figure.
What people in your field ask
Choose the indicator that matters - pull the records you already keep - watch it month on month - compare where it differs - act, then keep watching.
- Is our performance improving, or is this month just noise?control chart
- Do departments or programmes differ in outcomes?one way anova
- What predicts whether a student graduates on time?logistic regression
- Do entry scores actually predict final performance?ols regression
- Students sit inside classes inside faculties. Does that matter?multilevel mixed
Watch for: Ranking departments on raw outcomes without intake quality. The department admitting the weakest entrants will always appear worst, and the ranking then punishes the work you most want done.
See what your field uses The full guide for institutional performance and educational decisions Start again