Quantitative Analysis of TEF 2023 Outcomes Relative to Dataset Evidence

Pike, Claire V. S. (2024) Quantitative Analysis of TEF 2023 Outcomes Relative to Dataset Evidence. Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

With respect to quantitative evidence publicly available on the TEF data dashboard - NSS results for the Student Experience aspect; continuation, completion and progression results for the Student Outcomes aspect - the TEF 2023 guidance stated: ‘The indicators should contribute no ore than half of the evidence of very high quality or outstanding features, for each aspect as a whole’. Taking the Office for Students’ starting point that benchmark values in the UK higher education sector are consistent with ‘very high quality’ provision, together with the medal-like rating structure of the TEF, it is logical that dashboard evidence materially above benchmark is consistent with a Gold rating, dashboard evidence broadly in line with benchmark is consistent with a Silver rating, and dashboard evidence materially below benchmark is consistent with either a Bronze or Requires Improvement rating, depending upon how far below benchmark it falls. To use the terminology of the TEF exercises prior to 2023, one might consider that the high-level dashboard data forms an ‘initial hypothesis’ for a provider’s TEF outcome, which may or may not have been upheld once the dashboard findings had been considered together with additional evidence brought forth in the provider and student narrative submissions. This analysis asks the question of whether or not - across the TEF 2023 outcomes dataset as a whole and by its subdivisions - such ‘initial hypotheses’ were upheld. In other words, to what extent did the evidence submitted in narrative submissions appear to have a material, potentially transformational, effect upon provider outcomes, and were such effects - positive or negative - equally distributed among provider types and geographies?

Item Type:	Book
Faculty \ School:
Related URLs:	https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/news/quan...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Oct 2025 10:30
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2025 10:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100634
DOI:

Actions (login required)

View Item