DSAT 2008/09 software and documentation

The Data Self-assessment Toolkit (DSAT) for funding year 2008/09 will work by analysing data exported from the Learner Information Suite (LIS) series 16 and producing DSAT reports on these data.

The DSAT will give providers a toolkit to enable them to perform their own funding analysis, whether or not the provider will receive a funding audit during 2008/09.

The DSAT has been designed to:

• provide colleges with a toolkit to enable them to perform their own analysis on their ILR data;
• give Employer Responsive (Phase 1) and Learner Responsive (Phase 2) providers’ data and reports to enable them to perform their own analysis; and
• assist auditors in the audit of providers’ ILR data for 2008/09.

The DSAT for 2008/09 will be released in at least 3 phases:

• Phase 1 Release - Employer Responsive (ER) Reporting (included in phase 2);
• Phase 2 Release - Updates/ Additions to Phase 1 Release and to include Learner Responsive (LR) Reporting (available below); and
• Phase 3 Release - Updates/ Additions to Phase 1 and 2 Releases and to include Cross-Collection (XC), Cross-Provider (XP) and Cross-Year (XY) Reporting.

The draft list of proposed Employer Responsive and Learner Responsive DSAT Reports for 2008/09 is contained in the DSAT Reports 0809 v0.03 document below.  Note: There have been minor changes to the Employer Responsive reports from this document.

Software

Software	Date	Size	Download
DSAT (Phase 2) v9.10 for Access 2000	27 November 2008	5.2mB	ZIP file

Documentation

Document	Date	Size	Download
Proposed DSAT Reports for 2008/09 (v0.03)	4 September 2008	119kB	PDF file
DSAT v9.10 user guide	27 November 2008	511kB	PDF file

 

Last Modified: 27 November 2008.