HEIghten® Outcomes Assessment Suite 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.

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Institutional Score Reporting​

At the institutional level, the following information will be reported.*

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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 (PDF)
•  Summary and item level responses to Civic Participation survey questions

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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 (PDF)

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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 (PDF)

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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 (PDF)

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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 (PDF)
• Percentage of test takers at each proficiency level​
  • Written Communication Proficiency Levels (PDF)

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Test-taker Score Reports

Test takers who complete the HEIghten assessments will receive the following scores:

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Critical Thinking, Quantitative Literacy and Written Communication

• Total score
• Proficiency level achieved

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Civic Competency & Engagement​

• Civic Competency score
• Civic Attitudes score
• Proficiency and attitude level achieved
• Civic Participation survey responses

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Intercultural Competency & Diversity

• Analyze & Act score
• Approach score
• Proficiency and Approach level achieved

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