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TASO is working with six higher education providers to develop theories of change for their whole-provider approaches to reducing equality gaps in higher education, in collaboration with Professor Liz Thomas, Professor of Higher Education at the University of York.
TASO is working with three universities to participate in a project that will evaluate their student mental health and wellbeing interventions (prompted by analytics).
Mental health and wellbeingSuccess in higher educationLearning analyticsRandomised controlled trials
TASO is working with two universities to participate in a project that will evaluate student mental health and wellbeing interventions they deliver to small cohorts.
Mental health and wellbeingSuccess in higher educationTheory-based evaluation
TASO is working with three higher education providers to participate in a project that will evaluate their student mental health and wellbeing interventions using quasi-experimental designs.
Mental health and wellbeingSuccess in higher educationQuasi-experimental designs
A project to help the higher education sector use institutional data to generate evidence about which initiatives are effective in supporting student success and reducing equality gaps.
Institutional dataSuccess in higher educationQuasi-experimental designs
Find out more about our blueprint for multi-intervention transition support. The blueprint provides a set of evidence-informed activities and programmes to enhance disabled students’ transition into higher education.
By mapping the kinds of transition support and reasonable adjustments used in higher education, this project increased understanding of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions
In 2023-24, we commissioned Staffordshire University and Advance HE to produce theories of change and evaluation plans for interventions designed to address the ethnicity degree awarding gap.
A project exploring what works reduce equality gaps for disabled students in higher education, and how to improve employment and employability outcomes.
Disabled studentsEmployment and employabilitySuccess in higher education
Interventions that are prompted by data from university infrastructure systems are believed to be effective in improving engagement. This project aims to build a strong evidence base for these interventions.
Learning analyticsSuccess in higher educationRandomised controlled trials