HEIghten^® Outcomes Assessment Scores

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
• Civic Competency and Civic Attitudes Level Descriptions
• 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
• Critical Thinking Proficiency Levels

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
• Analyze & Act and Approach Level Descriptions

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
• Quantitative Literacy Proficiency Levels

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
• Written Communication Proficiency Levels

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:

• Civic Competency & Engagement
• Critical Thinking
• Intercultural Competency & Diversity
• Quantitative Literacy
• Written Communication

* Valid data from a minimum of 30 test takers is required to generate group-level institutional reports.