Institutions nationwide can use results from the HEIghten® Outcomes Assessment Suite for accreditation and accountability initiatives, to guide curriculum improvement and to measure growth and development.
Using Scores
With the HEIghten Outcomes Assessment Suite, institutions can:
- Paint a more complete picture of student performance. The tests can be used as a standalone assessment or in conjunction with an institution's existing assessments.
- Use the actionable data to show that students have learned the general education skills needed after graduation.
- Mix and match the assessments to address individual institutional goals.
- Gauge student learning outcomes of traditional, blended learning and distance learning students.
- Meet requirements for accreditation and program funding by measuring and documenting program effectiveness.
- Identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to improve curriculum through the assessment of student proficiency in core academic skill areas.
- Compare institutional performance using national comparative data.
Institutional Score Reporting
At the institutional level, the following information will be reported.*
Civic Competency & Engagement
- Civic Competency mean score
- Mean subscores for the following domains:
- Civic Knowledge
- Civic Skills
- Civic Attitudes mean score
- Percentage of test takers at each Civic Competency and Civic Attitudes level
- Summary and item level responses to Civic Participation survey questions
See a sample HEIghten Civic Competency & Engagement Institution score report.
Critical Thinking
- Mean total score
- Mean subscores for the following domains:
- Analytic
- Synthetic
- Percentage of test takers at each proficiency level
See a sample HEIghten Critical Thinking Institution score report.
Intercultural Competency & Diversity
- Analyze & Act score
- Mean subscores for the following domains:
- Self-awareness
- Cultural Knowledge Application
- Suspending Judgment/Perspective Taking
- Social Monitoring
- Emotion Regulation
- Behavior Regulation
- Approach mean score
- Mean subscores for the following domains:
- Positive Cultural Orientation
- Cultural Self-efficacy
- Percentage of test takers at each Analyze & Act and Approach level
See a sample HEIghten Intercultural Competency & Diversity Institution score report.
Quantitative Literacy
- Mean total score
- Mean subscores for the following content areas:
- Numbers and operations
- Algebra
- Geometry and measurement
- Probability and statistics
- Percentage of test takers at each proficiency level
See a sample HEIghten Quantitative Literacy Institution score report.
Written Communication
- Mean total score
- Mean subscores for the following domains:
- Knowledge of social and rhetorical situations
- Knowledge of conceptual strategies
- Knowledge of language use and conventions
- Direct writing measure score
- Percentage of test takers at each proficiency level
See a sample HEIghten Written Communication Institution score report.
Test-taker Score Reports
Test takers who complete the HEIghten assessments will receive the following scores:
Critical Thinking, Quantitative Literacy and Written Communication
- Total score
- Proficiency level achieved
Civic Competency & Engagement
- Civic Competency score
- Civic Attitudes score
- Proficiency and attitude level achieved
- Civic Participation survey responses
Intercultural Competency & Diversity
- Analyze & Act score
- Approach score
- Proficiency and Approach level achieved
The following are the sample HEIghten test-taker score reports:
* Valid data from a minimum of 30 test takers is required to generate group-level institutional reports.
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