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Understanding Key Information Sets (KIS) for Student Decision-Making

This overview explores Key Information Sets (KIS) which provide comparable datasets to prospective students, enhancing their understanding of undergraduate courses. Key features include institutional and course-level data sourced from external entities, ensuring reliability. KIS data covers employment statistics, student satisfaction, costs, and study details, helping students make informed choices. The information is published externally via Unistats, allowing easy comparisons and providing transparency about course content, learning activities, and assessment methods.

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Understanding Key Information Sets (KIS) for Student Decision-Making

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  1. KEY INFORMATION SETS THE BASICS

  2. Overview

  3. OVERVIEW • Key Information Sets • Information fields • External data • Institutional data: University level • Institutional data: course level • Links and error checklist • Further information: KIS webpage on QA/E website on staffcentral

  4. Key Information Sets

  5. WHAT THEY ARE • Comparable sets of information • Identified as useful by prospective students • All UG courses have a course level KIS • Exceptions: • Short courses (one year FTE equivalent or less) • PG courses • Closed courses • Courses delivered wholly overseas • Information drawn from external and institutional sources

  6. KIS DISPLAY • Published externally on Unistats • Allows comparisons • Can search by information fields • Displays on course finder pages as a widget • Rolling fields of information • Links to full list of information on Unistats • Course can be viewed in context • Course finder pages also display the course programme specification

  7. Programme specification for current cohort (drawn from staffcentral) Widget

  8. Information fields in KIS

  9. INFORMATION ITEMS 6 information tabs on Unistats page • Overview • Employment and accreditation • Student satisfaction • Cost and accommodation • Study information • Entry information

  10. SOURCES OF INFORMATION • University/ HE Institution • Institution level information • Course level information • External • NSS • DLHE • UCAS • HESA

  11. INFORMATION FIELDS

  12. INFORMATION SOURCE AND YEAR

  13. External data

  14. EXTERNAL DATA FIELDS • DLHE – employment information • NSS – student satisfaction • HESA – study information • Class of degree (qualification obtained) • Continuation (retention) • HESA – entry information • Entry qualifications • UCAS tariff score Publication thresholds

  15. EXTERNAL DATA: PUBLICATION THRESHOLDS • NSS and DLHE data at course level are only published when they reach certain thresholds • NSS: 50% of population and at least 23 students • Where numbers are too small, Unistats will show data for • More than one year of the course • Subject level data drawn from several courses • Similar courses across the UK (DLHE)

  16. Institutional data

  17. INSTITUTION LEVEL INFORMATION • Fees • Financial support • Accommodation costs

  18. COURSE LEVEL INFORMATION • Accreditation • Study information • learning/ teaching and assessment information (LTA) • LT: how the course is taught measured as time spent in learning/ teaching activities • A: assessment methods measured as a percentage of total assessment

  19. COURSE LEVEL INFO: ACCREDITATION • Includes professional, statutory and regulatory bodies’ (PSRBs) recognition and endorsement of courses • Drawn from a HESA list of recognised accrediting bodies • Can request that PSRBs be added to list • Link to PSRB website which outlines terms of accreditation

  20. COURSE LEVEL INFO: LTA • Presented by year of study (course stage) • Reflects aggregate LTA of module choices of students enrolled in a previous year (typical pathway) • Prescribed LTA categories • Learning/ teaching categories: • scheduled timetabled activities (e.g. lectures, field trips) • independent but guided study (e.g. reading, exam preparation) • placement learning • Assessment categories: • written (written exams) • coursework (written assignments e.g. essay, dissertation, portfolio, report, project etc.) • practical (presentations and practical skills assessments)

  21. COURSE LEVEL INFO: LTA (2) Assessment methods Learning/ teaching activities Subject to amendment and revision by HESA. Correct as of 2013 for KIS 2014 entry.

  22. Learning/ teaching Assessment

  23. COURSE LEVEL INFO: LTA (3) • Based on the typical student pathway • Typical pathway = most popular module diet (based on enrolled students’ module selections in a previous year) • Calculated using an algorithm which • aggregates module LTA data at each course stage/ year of study • is credit-weighted • May include modules taken on other courses/ in other schools • Drawn from CAMS module records • Typical pathway for new/ periodically reviewed courses is estimated at course stage level

  24. COURSE LEVEL INFO: LTA (4) e.g. of calculation of typical pathway from module records for year 1 120 credits at course stage 1 (year 1) 20 credits 12 students √ XX101 20 credits 12 students √ XX102 10 credits 7 students XX103 √ 10 credits 9 students XX104 √ 40 credits 12 students √ XX105 Note inclusion of optional module from different school 20 credits 5 students x XX106 20 credits 8 students √ YY110

  25. COURSE LEVEL INFO: LTA (5) • Reflects students’ module choices from a previous year • Selection of module year is automatic • Module maintenance in CAMS without reference to effects on KIS

  26. 2012 module record used in typical pathway for KIS 2014 entry (i.e. August 2013 submission) Learning/ teaching activities in hours Assessment methods (%)

  27. Links and error checklist

  28. USEFUL WEBSITES • Comparisons of HE course data (Unistats) http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/ • University guidelines (staffcentral) http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/quality/KIS/KIS.shtm • Guidance on KIS policy and process (HEFCE) http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/lt/publicinfo/kis/ • Guidance on compiling KIS data sets (HESA) http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_studrec&Itemid=232&mnl=13061

  29. ERROR CHECKLIST

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