Welcome
What are you trying to do?
A study for my organisation in institutional performance and educational decisions.
Your path
Create the study and set the discipline
The discipline decides what every later page shows you.
Decide whether people are involved
If your data is about machines, facilities or finances rather than people, declare no human subjects and the data protection conditions do not apply. The declaration is checked.
Collect or import
Collect through ZStat with consent and withdrawal, or bring a CSV, Excel or SPSS file you already have.
Analyse and compare
Between sites, periods, groups or programmes - with the effect size, because significance alone does not tell a manager whether it matters.
Produce the assurance pack
Generated from your own installation, for a funder or a data protection officer.
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.
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