LPP: disclaimer about automated-reporting

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1. TEC is particularly concerned with the pass rates for domestic students enrolled in qualifications at Level 7 (or lower) on the NZ Qualifications Framework. This includes undergraduate degrees, but not four-year honours degrees like the BE (Hons). The latter is a Level 8 qualification.

2. TEC tends to concentrate on cohorts with 5 EFTS or more (so 40 domestic students or more in a 15 point paper and 30 domestic students or more in a 20 point paper).

3. For papers with several occurrences a year, the enrolments in all these occurrences are combined when a report is made to TEC. So choosing the "Master" type is more likely to be useful at the end of the year. For Semester A grades at the end of Semester A, choosing the "Occurrence" type would be more useful (unless someone wants to combine Semester A and S).

4. TEC's current requirement is for a 60% pass rate for domestic students in Level 7 (or lower) qualifications.

5. The LPP software is required because in papers with students in a mixture of Level 7 and Level 8 quals, just looking at the pass rate for the domestic students as one cohort is not enough.
   For example, suppose a 15 point 100 level paper has 120 domestic students with 50 of them in a Level 7 qual and the other 70 students in a Level 8 qual. If the number passing out of the 50 is 25 while 60 out of the 70 pass, then the pass rate overall for the 120 domestic students is 85/120 = 70.8%. But the pass rate for the 50 domestic students in the Level 7 qual is just 50%.

6. Any student with an "..." grade or a "blank" grade is excluded from the calculations. This is not consistent with TEC methodology, but the number of students in Level 7 or lower quals with such a grade is low.

7. Students enrolled in a qualification with "Hons" in the title (including conjoints) or in a paper at 500 level or higher are assumed to be in a Level 8 or higher qual; any other students are assumed to be in a Level 7 qual.
   Since capable students in, say, a BSc may be permitted to take 500 level papers, this assumption will not be true for all students. Also, a student in a conjoint with one component an honours degree and the other
   component a non-honours degree will not be counted correctly in a paper taken for the non-honours component.

8. Because of the assumptions made under 6. and 7. above, there are limitations. So pass rates are not guaranteed to be exactly correct. It is strongly recommended that any paper having a pass rate for domestic students in Level 7 quals of 60% or lower (as given by the output) and with at least five such EFTS be investigated in more detail.

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