Strategic Teaching and Learning Team
Huddersfield Differential Attainment Project
Since 2019, I have been a member of a Strategic Teaching and Learning Team by the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) Office as a Data Analyst. There, I mainly work on the Huddersfield Differential Attainment Project (HuDAP), a high-level analysis of students’ attainment across the entire institution, using in-depth information on various characteristics of students, such as entry qualification, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and others.
I also contribute to the analysis of student engagement with our VLE and help elucidate the impact of the pandemic on students’ achievement, course assessment structure and others. Along with Drs Vicki Trowler and John Stephenson, we then try to provide social context for this data and statistical modelling to highlight causative relationships in the data, to further suppport the university in providing apropriate environment for students’ teaching and learning.
In 2022, the STLT won the Times Higher Education award for Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. You can read the University news item about it here.
TASO project on Institutional Data Use
In 2022-23, I took part in the Institutional Data Use project run by the Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) organisation. The project aimed 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. We provided data on and helped evaluate a low-stakes assessment project in the School of Computing and Engineering, alongside a series of discussions and workshops on setting up apropriate data, reporting and evaluation procedures in a higher education institution.
The project’s overall outputs are gathered at TASO website.