Secondary statistics user manual

The NZQA secondary school statistics user manual (PDF, 1.5MB) is designed to provide an easy-to-follow guide to accessing, using and interpreting these data. The document includes:

• An Overview of the Website, which describes the types of reports that the website can generate, and the achievement data that are included in each.
• A guide to Creating Reports, aimed at getting you up and running as fast as possible and enabling you to use the data selection tools to create reports containing the data you want to see. Some worked examples of reports displaying and comparing data are also provided in this section, and data export functions are explained; that is, the tools that allow you to download data files so that you can view them using Microsoft Excel.
• A guide to Building Reports for Specific Objectives, designed to assist you to get the most out of the data. It includes worked examples that illustrate how to use the website data to help you answer particular questions as well as some basic principles and techniques of statistical analysis.
• A guide to Reporting on Data Analyses, which provides some recommendations on presenting analyses for various audiences.

The Getting the Best from the Statistics - A Guide (PDF, 284KB) may also be useful.