Overview

The Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) are a suite of Australian government-endorsed surveys for higher education, which cover the student life cycle from commencement to employment. QILT is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment. The administration of the survey is conducted by the Social Research Centre, a subsidiary of the Australian National University.

The QILT surveys currently include the Student Experience Survey (SES), Graduate Outcomes Survey, Graduate Outcomes Survey (Longitudinal), and the Employer Satisfaction Survey. Results from the surveys are published at qilt.edu.au.

Australian Higher Education Providers (HEPs) are required to submit data that allows the Social Research Centre to administer the SES. Providers are required to submit a collection of student demographic information together with course details and contact information. The scope of the QILT reporting changes each calendar year.

The remainder of this article explains how providers may generate a QILT compliant data extract to support their SES reporting obligations.

Complexity: MEDIUM

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Assumptions

NOTE

The report structure is underpinned by a series of generic assumptions that may not directly correlate with how some providers have entered data into Paradigm.

Element 329 - derived from the existing Paradigm field “Method of Delivery” found on the Base Unit and Scheduled Unit screens. Each provider will need to configure their own mapping between the Paradigm field and the equivalent element 329 option as per the instructions in this article.
The following elements are extracted using the TCSI Reporting element definition as maintained via the TCSI Student Edit screen:
- 327 Basis for admission code
- 358 Citizen resident code
- 615 Disability code
Elements 461 and 462 - extracted from the relevant TCSI fields on the Base Course screen
Element 330 - derived from the field labelled “Full/Part Time” on the course enrolment screen.
- “Full-Time” returns 1
- “Part-Time” returns 0
- Any other value returns blank
enrlstat - derived using the contents of element 559 using the following mapping
- Element 599 value 1 returns 2
- Element 599 value 2 returns 1
- Element 599 value 3 returns 4
- Element 599 value 4 returns 3
- Element 599 value 5 returns 2
- Element 599 value 6 returns 1
- Element 599 value 7 returns 1
- Otherwise return 0
intendedlocation - extracted from the Base Course Campus fields
- Element 569 value 1 or 2 returns 2
- Element 569 that is either blank or any other value returns 1
completingflag - derived using a combination of fields
- Element 599 value of 1 or 5 returns 1
- Course enrolment status of ‘ENROLMENT_COMPLETED’ returns 1
- Sum (current credit points + enrolled credit points + RPL granted credit points ) > required credit points return 1
- Otherwise return 0
Faculty - intentionally left blank as this is an optional field
Campus - intentionally left blank as this is an optional field

Key Terms and Concepts

QILT

Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching

SES

Student Experience Survey

Implications

WARNING

The 2021 version of the QILT SES reporting guidelines requires providers to report data using the 2021 TCSI element definitions.

For PIR institutions this requirement is significant given that their government reporting is still conducted using the HEIMS HEPCAT element definitions. The outcome is that a number of fields in the report will return with blanks as the data does not exist within the Paradigm database.

These fields must be manual data entered before submission of the file.

BE ADVISED

The QILT SES base report in Paradigm Report Builder is maintained to ensure compliance with the reporting guidelines published by QILT. This means the report will produce a data structure that is valid.

It is ultimately the responsibility of the provider to ensure that the report is used with the correct base report parameters and that the data is reviewed for completeness and accuracy prior to submission.

Workflow

How to Produce the QILT Report

HOW-TO Produce the QILT Report

1 Choose Reports > Provider menus on the side.

2 Once on the Provider page, search for QILT SES 2021 STUDENT SUBMISSIONS (these instructions assume that you are generating the previous Academic Year QILT report).

INFO: You can use the Ctrl + F keys and type in QILT to search for the QILT SES 2021 STUDENT SUBMISSIONS section.

3 Once you’ve found the exact report section named: QILT SES 2021 STUDENT SUBMISSIONS, click the GET REPORT button to proceed to the fields section where you can set the data to be generated.

4 After clicking the GET REPORT button, a Report Builder page will open up. Please take note of the two mandatory fields below before you produce the report:

NOTE: The first two fields in the form Start Date From: and Start Date To: should never be left blank. If these two fields are blank, you will be prompted with an error to provide values in those two fields.

5 The rest of the fields are optional. You have the option to apply more constraints to the report that you want to produce. The following are some of them (fields which are highlighted in blue)

6 After filling out the two required fields (highlighted in red above) and applying some constraints (highlighted in blue). Choose the report format that you want by clicking the 🔘 button of your preferred output file, and then click the PRODUCE REPORT button.

7 The PRODUCE REPORT button will generate the output file format you’ve chosen. (e.g. If you’ve chosen the CSV, a link will be provided for you to download the QILT Report).

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