News1 November 2022
TASO has launched a draft widening participation questionnaire, which we need the higher education sector to pilot through their evaluation work.
The draft version of the questionnaire is partially validated. This means there is still one step in the validation process to be completed before the final questionnaire can be used as a validated tool to measure intermediate outcomes relevant to widening access and student success.
The final step of the validation process (and the step we need your help with) is to collect responses from students for the questionnaire items we have collated, and collect data on relevant outcomes – such as attainment, progression rates, and success measures. This will generate a large dataset for TASO to run statistical analyses using the current version of the measurement scales.
How can you help?
- We need your help to validate our draft multi-scale questionnaire.
- You can access the questionnaire below and provide permission for TASO to contact you about sharing anonymised attainment, progression, or other relevant data.
- Based on the data collected, and shared with TASO, we will finish the validation process and publish the final questionnaire in 2023.