Research Publications

The complete record.

Everything the group has published since 2025. Report numbers are permanent: when we revise a paper the number stays and the version increments, so a citation never breaks.

Full papers6With abstract, method, figures, limitations and artefacts.

Technical notes2Shorter write-ups of a single decision.

Other outputs4A preprint, a dataset, a position paper and a talk.

Corrections4Papers revised after a reader found an error.

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2026

EPR-2026-04 Early-warning model calibration across 14 institutional contexts M. Bhardwaj · EduPlatter Research Vendors sell one retention model to every institution. We tested whether that can work by fitting on one context and predicting in another, fourteen… Paper16 July 2026

EPR-2026-03 What actually worked: efficacy of 220 student success initiatives M. Bhardwaj · EduPlatter Research We assessed 220 initiatives across partner institutions using matched comparison. Fewer than half produced a measurable effect. The ones that did… Paper24 June 2026

EPR-2026-02 Equity gaps in early-warning systems: who gets flagged, and who gets missed M. Bhardwaj · EduPlatter Research Our own first-generation model under-flagged first-generation students by 11 points and we did not notice for two terms. This is how we found it,… Paper19 May 2026

EPR-2026-01 Course bottlenecks and on-time completion: where students actually get stuck M. Bhardwaj · EduPlatter Research Institutions treat non-completion as a student problem. In our data it is more often a timetable problem. Four gateway courses accounted for a third… Paper12 April 2026

EPT-2026-06 Warm-starting a persistence model with one term of history M. Bhardwaj · EduPlatter Technical Note Practical procedure behind the warm-start result in EPR-2026-04. Technical note4 July 2026

— Why we stopped selling card-swipe integration M. Bhardwaj · Indian Higher Education Analytics Forum, Bengaluru Slides and transcript published. 22 minutes. Conference talkMay 2026

— simulated-contexts-v2 M. Bhardwaj, P. Krishnan · Public release Fourteen simulated institutional contexts for transfer research. DatasetMarch 2026

2025

EPR-2025-02 Data quality is the binding constraint, not model choice M. Bhardwaj · EduPlatter Research We compared six model families against six levels of data completeness on the same task. Moving from the worst model to the best gained 4 points.… Paper14 October 2025

EPR-2025-01 What students say against what they do: topic analysis on 340,000 feedback responses M. Bhardwaj · EduPlatter Research We ran topic modelling over eight years of course feedback and compared what students complained about with what actually predicted their outcomes.… Paper20 August 2025

EPT-2025-04 A data dictionary template for Indian higher education EduPlatter implementation team · EduPlatter Technical Note The definitions we ask registrars and IR offices to sign, and why each one is contested. Technical noteNovember 2025

— Against automated academic consequence M. Bhardwaj, A. Varma · EduPlatter Research Why we refuse to wire a risk score to probation or funding withdrawal. Position paperSeptember 2025

— Suppressed demand: estimating courses students never attempted to take Dr. S. Rao · Preprint, under review Method for recovering registration attempts that leave no record. Comments wanted. PreprintJuly 2025

Citing this work

BibTeX for the full papers.

@techreport{epr04,
  title  = {Early-warning model calibration across 14 institutional contexts},
  author = {Bhardwaj, Mohit},
  year   = {2026},
  number = {EPR-2026-04},
  institution = {EduPlatter Research}
}
@techreport{epr03,
  title  = {What actually worked: efficacy of 220 student success initiatives},
  author = {Bhardwaj, Mohit},
  year   = {2026},
  number = {EPR-2026-03},
  institution = {EduPlatter Research}
}
@techreport{epr02,
  title  = {Equity gaps in early-warning systems: who gets flagged, and who gets missed},
  author = {Bhardwaj, Mohit},
  year   = {2026},
  number = {EPR-2026-02},
  institution = {EduPlatter Research}
}
@techreport{epr01,
  title  = {Course bottlenecks and on-time completion: where students actually get stuck},
  author = {Bhardwaj, Mohit},
  year   = {2026},
  number = {EPR-2026-01},
  institution = {EduPlatter Research}
}
@techreport{epr02,
  title  = {Data quality is the binding constraint, not model choice},
  author = {Bhardwaj, Mohit},
  year   = {2025},
  number = {EPR-2025-02},
  institution = {EduPlatter Research}
}
@techreport{epr01,
  title  = {What students say against what they do: topic analysis on 340,000 feedback responses},
  author = {Bhardwaj, Mohit},
  year   = {2025},
  number = {EPR-2025-01},
  institution = {EduPlatter Research}
}