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Campus Scorecard

The Evidence Behind Every Campus Conversation

The Campus Scorecard is a public, evidence-backed view of campus conditions, broken down by sector, and tracked over time. A continuously updated, evidence-based representation of campus conditions.

No sector score is published yet.

Scores appear here only after ECHO's validation, verification and approval. Until then, this page sets out the sectors, the provisional status model and how every score will be explained.

What Each Sector Card Will Show

Once a sector has an approved score, its card will show each of the following.

  1. Sector name and current score (0-100)

  2. Previous score and the change (↑ / ↓ / →)

  3. Trend indicator

  4. Status (Healthy / Manageable / Risk, see the status model)

  5. Last verified update date

  6. Number of responses/observations behind the score

  7. A link into the evidence behind the score (see the evidence trail)

The Sector Model

A proposed framework of ten sectors, not an automatically final list: ECHO will be able to add or remove sectors centrally.

The Scorecard is designed for all ten sectors and will launch with approximately five where ECHO can realistically collect and verify evidence today. The likely candidates are marked below.

No published score yet

  • Transportation

    Likely MVP candidate

  • Healthcare

  • Academic / Learning Environment

    Likely MVP candidate

  • ICT / CBT

    Likely MVP candidate

  • Student Welfare

    Likely MVP candidate

  • Accommodation

    Likely MVP candidate

  • Campus Infrastructure

  • Food / Student-Facing Services

  • Safety & Security

  • Student Participation / Institutional Engagement

The Health Status Model

Each sector score maps to a plain-language status so visitors don't need to interpret raw numbers.

These bands are provisional until ECHO formally develops and approves the scoring methodology. They are visual classifications, never presented as objective fact ahead of that approval.

  • Healthy

    70-100

    Provisional

  • Manageable

    40-69

    Provisional

  • Risk

    0-39

    Provisional

ECHO defines the methodology, data produces the score, the system assigns the status.

Explainability

Every Public Score Must Be Explainable

For any published score, the Scorecard will answer all eight of these questions, either inline or one click away.

  1. What is the score?

  2. Why is it this score?

  3. What changed?

  4. What evidence produced the score?

  5. When was the evidence collected?

  6. How was it verified?

  7. What action followed?

  8. Did the situation subsequently change?

Evidence Trail

Every Published Number Is Traceable

Every published number will have a visible chain a visitor can follow, so anyone can ask where ECHO got a number and find the answer on the page.

  1. Score
  2. Indicators
  3. Data
  4. Source
  5. Collection Date
  6. Verification
  7. Report

No unexplained public statistics.

About This Data

Scorecard Methodology

How evidence will become a sector score and a status. The methodology is provisional until ECHO formally develops and approves it.

Provisional

The Scorecard monitors a defined set of sectors. This is a proposed framework, not an automatically final list: ECHO will be able to add or remove sectors centrally.

Each sector will have all of the following defined and stored centrally:

  • Definition

  • Indicators

  • Data sources

  • Collection methodology

  • Weighting

  • Scoring methodology

  • Minimum evidence threshold

  • Reporting period

  • Verification rules

Adding a sector in the future will be a configuration change, not a development project.

Each sector score maps to a plain-language status: Healthy, Manageable or Risk. These are visual classifications based on an approved scoring methodology, never presented as objective fact ahead of that approval, and the bands are marked Provisional until then.

A status always traces back to ECHO's methodology, never to an opaque algorithm.

ECHO defines the methodology, data produces the score, the system assigns the status.

Score thresholds will be changeable centrally through a configuration record, with no code change: when ECHO's Advisory Board approves a methodology revision, updating the cut-points will not require developer involvement.

Every public score must be explainable: for any published score, the system answers the eight questions, either inline or one click away.

Beyond the sector card, the Scorecard as a whole will support:

  • Overall campus indicators, where justified by the evidence

  • Sector-level scores

  • Current score and previous score

  • Historical scores (full series, not just the last data point)

  • Directional trend and change over time

  • Status (Healthy / Manageable / Risk)

  • Evidence count behind the score

  • Reporting period

  • Last verified update

  • Methodology reference

  • Evidence sources

  • Institutional responses

  • Follow-up outcomes

Illustrative example, not real data

Illustrative Card

Sector

Transportation

Score

72/100 ↑ 11

Status

Healthy

Previous

61

Last verified

September 2026

The Scorecard does not only show a current number. It preserves every prior score as a snapshot, so trends are real and auditable: a value is never simply overwritten, and the full Previous, Current and Historical Trend record is kept.

Visitors will be able to see previous reporting periods, score movement, significant changes, interventions, relevant research and audits, and institutional responses tied to each period.

If a reporting period has no data, the Scorecard shows the gap plainly rather than manufacturing continuity. A missing period is displayed as missing, never smoothed over or estimated without being labelled as such.

Illustrative example, not real data

Transportation

  1. January: 51
  2. March: 56
  3. June: 61
  4. September: 72

When a score changes, visitors will be able to see why: the plain-language drivers of the change and the evidence documents behind them.

Illustrative example, not real data

Score change: Transportation: 61 → 72

Why did it change?

  • Waiting time improved

  • Availability improved

  • Student satisfaction increased

  • New intervention recorded

Evidence:

  • Transport Audit

  • Student Pulse Survey

  • Field Observation

Every published number has a visible chain a visitor can follow, from the score back to the report it came from:

  1. Score
  2. Indicators
  3. Data
  4. Source
  5. Collection Date
  6. Verification
  7. Report

Anyone should be able to ask where ECHO got a number and find the answer on the page, without contacting ECHO directly.

No unexplained public statistics.

The Campus Scorecard is a continuously updated, evidence-based representation of campus conditions. A student submitting information is not the same as truth being established.

Only verified and approved data ever affects a public score. The required sequence is:

  1. Submission
  2. Validation
  3. Verification
  4. Approval
  5. Score Update

No submission moves a public score before passing through all five steps.

Every score, statistic and finding carries one of six evidence states, and the states are never blurred. They are explained in full on How We Work.

Submission

Information supplied by an individual.

Reported

Information received but not independently verified.

Validated

Information that has passed basic quality checks.

Verified

Information that meets ECHO's defined evidence standard.

Published Finding

Evidence incorporated into an approved research/audit output.

Modelled / Forecast

Information produced through an analytical or forecasting model.

A student submission must not automatically become a public score.

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