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Check out our technical guides to elevate your evaluation, data visualisation and coding practices! What's inside? 📊 The data visualisation style guide: Gain clear, actionable guidelines for crafting impactful charts using your preferred tools like Excel, R, or Tableau. 💻 Coding best practices guide: Explore tips, guidelines, and resources to make your code more accessible, shareable, and reliable. 📈 Data infrastructure guide:  A guide to using and developing a data infrastructure to enable effective use of institutional data to evaluate student success activities. 👉 Dive in now to enhance your data storytelling and coding skills: https://lnkd.in/e6xtS9Za

UK Disability History Month 2024 focuses on livelihood and employment. We've previously explored what works to reduce equality gaps for disabled students in #highereducation, and how to improve employment and employability outcomes. Find out more. #UKDHM https://lnkd.in/eHYX8xsA

Thanks to everyone who joined us at our 'exploring causal impact evaluation using QEDs' session. We hope you found it valuable and feel inspired to apply these methods in your own work. Missed the session? Find out about quasi-experimental design via our website: https://lnkd.in/e2HX6Nvd

Enhance your evaluation efforts with our Access and Success Questionnaire (ASQ)! The ASQ is key to better assessing access and student success initiatives. It provides validated scales to measure intermediate outcomes, allowing you to check if and how your initiatives are working. Learn more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e7_DvRuN

Calling higher education providers 📢 TASO will soon be opening applications for you to collaborate on creating a theory of change to support your whole-provider approach to reducing risks to equality of opportunity in higher education. Learn more and register your interest: https://lnkd.in/e9YvZ2zn Interested in learning more? Join us for an online information session on 17 December to explore the project and application process: https://lnkd.in/eU-GJJBB

The TASO Sector Network brings together researchers, practitioners and evaluators with an interest in widening participation and student success in higher education. As a member of the network, you can write a post for our blog, co-create an event with us, provide feedback on our work and get a first look at our reports – and more! We're always welcoming new members so if you're interested in joining please take a look at our sign-up page: https://lnkd.in/eFZB4cZV

📢 In the latest issue of AGCAS's Phoenix, our Research Officer Tatjana Damjanovic discusses TASO's work on student mental health and how universities can improve mental health support. Discover Tatjana's insights on tackling the growing demand for support, overcoming resource challenges, fostering collaboration, and using innovative, evidence-based strategies like “stealth” interventions to engage students and reduce stigma: https://lnkd.in/dnWgY9Ep Explore our Student Mental Health Toolkit summarising existing research measuring the impact of student mental health interventions: https://lnkd.in/dRKb85R3

What's been happening #ThisMonthAtTASO? 🚀 Dive into our newsletter for December updates, blog posts, and more! Check it out here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/erEA4kSt

Our student access, success, progression evidence toolkit summarises the existing evidence on approaches to widening participation and student success for disadvantaged and underrepresented groups in #HigherEducation. Access the toolkit here: https://lnkd.in/eVSWiix3