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Explore research, view current projects and discover resources, designed to help you plan and deliver effective evaluations for your widening-participation interventions.

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  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Resources | Multi-intervention outreach and mentoring

    These resources were developed as part of the ‘Multi-intervention outreach and mentoring’ project. We explored the different ways that multi-intervention outreach and monitoring programmes could be evaluated.
    Mentoring, counselling, coaching
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Resources | Learning about evaluation with small cohorts: pilots to test the methodologies

    These resources were developed as part of the ‘Learning about evaluation with small cohorts: pilots to test the methodologies’ project.
    Small cohortsTheory-based evaluation
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Resources | Summer school evaluation

    These resources were developed as part of the summer school evaluation project, looking at the link between summer schools and access to higher education.
    Summer schoolsAdditional study
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Resources | What works to reduce equality gaps for disabled students

    These resources were developed as part of the ‘What works to reduce equality gaps for disabled students’ project. They include reports, intervention analysis reports and an Enhanced Theory of Change.
    Disabled students
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Resources | Piloting methods to develop better evidence on student support

    These resources were developed as part of a project exploring what works to reduce equality gaps for disabled students in higher education, including how to improve employability outcomes for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds.
    Disabled students
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Resources | Institutional data use

    Access resources from our project where we appointed four higher education providers who provided institutional data, including student engagement with specific support interventions, for evaluation.
    Institutional data
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    TASO Technical Guides 

    TASO Technical Guides: a collection of interactive TASO resources to support your evaluation, data visualisation, and coding practices
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Data visualisation style guide

    We have developed a data visualisation style guide for those who see the storytelling potential in data, offering guidance to enhance the impact of your information.
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Data infrastructure guide (DIG)

    This guide helps higher education providers use their institutional data to identify equality gaps in student success and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce the gaps.
    Institutional data
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (MEF)

    The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (MEF) promotes an impact-driven evaluation approach, interlaced with process evaluation, to determine which interventions work in transforming access and student outcomes.
  • Guidance and resources
    Guidance and resources

    Causal evidence

    Type 3 evidence focuses on ‘causal impact’ which means it tells us whether an activity causes a difference in outcomes.
  • Current project
    Current project

    Project | Using quasi-experimental designs to evaluate mental health and wellbeing interventions

    22 October 2024
    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 wellbeingQuasi-experimental designs