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News21 September 2023

New: Access and Success Questionnaire (ASQ)

Questionnaire is designed to help the higher education sector to better evaluate its access and student success activities
Access to higher education

TASO has launched its Access and Success Questionnaire (ASQ) (formerly known as TASO’s widening participation questionnaire).

The ASQ is designed to help the higher education (HE) sector to better evaluate its access and student success activities by providing a set of validated scales that can be used to measure the key intermediate outcomes these activities aim to improve.

The scales have been developed based on findings from a consultation with the HE sector to understand the intermediate outcomes most salient to their work and a review of the scales currently used for this purpose.

To complete the validation process for the questionnaire, we launched a draft version last year for the sector to pilot in their evaluation work. Any changes we needed to make to the items following on from this analysis have now been made and the questionnaire is now fully-validated and ready for the sector to use.

TASO commissioned researchers from The Brilliant Club and the University of Cambridge to carry out this work.

You can find out more and access the ASQ below.
Find out more about the Access and Success Questionnaire (ASQ)