Principles of analytics
Using evidence and data to make decisions you can show your working for — including the calculations you have to actually do.
Level 3 People Practice · 8 assessment criteria
Learning outcome 1
Understand how evidence-based practice informs organisational measures and outcomes.
- AC1.1explain
Explain what evidence-based practice is and how it is applied within an organisation.
What that asks for: Make it clear how or why something works. Description is enough here — you are not being asked to judge it.
- AC1.2explain
Explain the importance of using data in organisations.
What that asks for: Make it clear how or why something works. Description is enough here — you are not being asked to judge it.
- AC1.3explain
Explain different types of data measurements that people professionals use.
What that asks for: Make it clear how or why something works. Description is enough here — you are not being asked to judge it.
- AC1.4conduct
Conduct common calculations to interpret organisational data.
What that asks for: Carry out the calculation or activity and show the working. The result on its own is not the evidence.
- AC1.5present
Present findings in different formats to enable informed decision-making.
What that asks for: Produce it in a form a stakeholder could use. Format is part of the criterion.
- AC1.6explain
Explain how the application of agreed policies and procedures informs decisions.
What that asks for: Make it clear how or why something works. Description is enough here — you are not being asked to judge it.
Learning outcome 2
Know how creating value benefits employees, customers and wider stakeholders.
- AC2.1explain
Explain how people professionals create value for people, organisations and wider stakeholders.
What that asks for: Make it clear how or why something works. Description is enough here — you are not being asked to judge it.
- AC2.2summarise
Summarise ways in which you can be customer-focused, and standards-driven in your own context.
What that asks for: The main points, briefly, in your own words. Leaving things out is the skill being tested.
Learning outcomes and assessment criteria are quoted from the CIPD CIPD Level 3 Foundation Certificate in People Practice qualification specification, version 2.3 (February 2026), © CIPD. MarkReady is not a CIPD approved centre and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the CIPD.
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