Snowball Metrics Recipe Book
The “recipes” for 32 Snowball Metrics are shared in edition 3 of the Snowball Metrics Recipe Book; new metrics have been added in the area of Post-Graduate Education as well as others such as Success Rate. Download a list of these recipes. The feasibility of these definitions has been tested to ensure that Snowball Metrics can be readily updated to reflect the current status of an institution. These recipes can be used by any organization, free-of-charge, for their own purposes and, if applicable, under their own business models.
A Snowball Metric is indicated in the Recipe Book by the use of the
symbol placed after the name of the metric. Download the symbol here.
The complete HESA-HERD discipline denominator mapping is available here.
Snowball Metrics cards for all recipes from the third recipe book can be downloaded here.
“Snowball Metrics is about working on and sharing a common language so that institutions are confident that they can use all of their data to compare their performance with each other in an apples-to-apples way. It’s not trying to tell anyone which of these metrics to use to answer any particular question: which sub-set of the metrics you use, whether 1-5, or 2, 9, and 13, is up to the universities and funders. It’s just like using a recipe book to cook your dinner: I don’t need to cook the entire book to find it useful; instead I choose what I like, and perhaps what I have the ingredients in the fridge for.”