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Overview — Two Places, One Setting A rating scale is the set of options a respondent picks from when answering a rated survey question, and the numeric values NSCAT uses to average and trend those answers. The scale is configured in two places, and they do dif...

Overview — The Shared Question Pool The question pool is the shared library every survey and interview draws from. Rather than writing questions inside each activity, you build them once here, publish them, and activity composers reuse them. Open Question Comp...

Overview — What Themes Do Themes are the labels used to categorize qualitative findings — interview notes, focus group discussion, observations, survey comments. Where a rated question produces a number, a theme lets you tag what people actually said so it can...

Overview — The Training Record Training Management is NSCAT's record of who has been trained, in what role, where, and when. Assessment work depends on trained people — interviewers, team leads, site coordinators — and this is where that qualification is recor...

Overview — Getting Into NSCAT Your NSCAT account is created for you by an administrator — there is no self-service sign-up. Once it exists, you sign in with your work email and a password. GOOD TO KNOW  Your email address is your username. It is also where pas...

Overview — Two Layers of Access Access in NSCAT is decided by two independent layers, and most confusion about "why can't this person see that" comes from mixing them up. 1.      Account roles — the COG Admin and Utility Admin checkboxes on a person's account....

Overview — Locking and Unlocking Locking an activity makes it read-only. It is how you close an assessment out: the data is preserved exactly as it stood, and no one — regardless of role — can change it. Locking and unlocking happen in two different places, an...

Overview — The Activity's Settings Page Properties is where an activity's administrative settings live: its title, its lock status, who works on it and what they may do, and its rating scale. It is the page an admin visits most often once an assessment is unde...

Overview — The Audit Trail The Activity Feed is a running log of what has happened inside an activity: who did it, what they did, which item they touched, and when. It is the page to open when you need to know how an activity got into its current state. Open i...

Overview — Comparing Rank Orders Across Assessments The Cultural Pattern Rank Order report — CPRO — lines up several assessments side by side and shows how each one ranked its cultural patterns. Where a single activity's report tells you what one assessment fo...

Overview — Scores Over Time The Trending Report puts several activities side by side and shows how each scored against the ISF. Rows are ISF elements; columns are activities. Read across a row to see whether an attribute is improving, holding, or slipping. Ope...

Overview — Custom Reports The Report Builder produces custom Excel reports from one activity's survey or interview data. Where the fixed reports answer set questions, this lets you choose the fields, filter the records, group and sort them, and export the resu...

Overview — The Shared Lessons Library Lessons Learned Review is the cross-activity library of lessons recorded during assessments. Where each activity has its own Lessons Learned page, this brings them together so lessons can be browsed, endorsed by colleagues...