HigherEd

Your complete assessment

and reporting system
HigherEd™:
• Course, Program, and Unit-level
Assessments
• Standards-based, Reflective,
Electronic Portfolios
•Full Support for Tracking and
Management of Field Experience
and Clinical Practice
• Composite Data Aggregation—
from Student Information Systems,
Praxis Scores, Assessments, and
More
• Student Advisement—
Centralized, Comprehensive
Access to all Student Records,
Assessments, Transcripts, and
Program Requirements
• Sophisticated Report Generation
for Comprehensive Analysis, Report
Generation, and Accreditation
Support
• Powerful Survey/Collaboration
for Graduates, Faculty, Students,
and Communities
• Online Document Room for Easy
Storage, Organization, and Sharing
of Documents
Why are so many colleges choosing
HigherEd for their assessment
and reporting needs?
We call it “The Tk20 5 Point Difference.”

1 Data Aggregation. HigherEd imports your data

from your Student Information System, Praxis, and other
systems and combines it with your assessment data to

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give you an integrated view of all the data at your unit.

Customization. The system is completely customiz-

able to support your conceptual framework, artifacts,
standards, rubrics, portfolios, transition points, surveys,

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and reports.
Comprehensive System, not a Point Solution.
HigherEd was built to serve as a tool for all your
activities, not just assessments. It gives you extensive

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capabilities for field experiences, advisement, report
generation, document management, surveys, and more.

Your Own System. HigherEd is licensed to you so

your data resides in your own system, not one owned
by a vendor. Why put one of your most important assets
in a system owned by someone else?

Built in Active Collab-

oration with Serving
Faculty of Education.
Our customers love the
system because they

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see features that were
designed by their own
colleagues.

There’s simply no comparison.

HigherEd Courseware Assists
Instruction, Making Your Job
Easier.
HigherEd imports data from the
Student Information System to
automatically set up courses for
instructors. It offers one, cen-
tral, easy location to manage all
courses. Instructors can com-
municate with their students,
post assignments, give quizzes,
complete assessments, manage
grades, post syllabi and other
documents, and manage teach-
ing assistants – all from one
location.
All course-based activity is
managed through easy-to-build
templates. Once built, tem-
plates can be reused for other
courses in the same or other
semesters. Course-based
information is never reset
and data from any previous
semester is instantly available
to instructors.
All data associated with course-
based activity including stan-
dards-based student artifacts,
reflections, instructor feedback,
field experience activity, and
assessments can be combined
with other data in the system
for comprehensive reporting.
Additionally, all course-based
material can be included in
student portfolios.
All course-related work
can be included in
portfolios for program-
based assessments.
All assessment data can
be integrated with data
from other sources such
as Student Information
Systems, Praxis scores,
survey responses,
and more.
Program-Based Assessments are Customized for Your
Standards, Rubrics, Portfolios, and Transition Points.
HigherEd can be completely customized to apply the entire set ally, all data related to portfolios
customized for all activity related of standards and rubrics used at can be viewed as customized
to course or program-based as- the college. reports. Candidates can export
sessments. Candidates can cre- their portfolios to a CD-ROM for
ate lesson plans, essays, Website Candidates can create and submit their personal records or for use
URLs, work samples or any other standards-based reflective portfo- in job interviews.
artifact in use at your college. lios that are assessed by one or
These artifacts can be tailored by multiple faculty members, indi- With HigherEd, each program
program and the system can be vidually or collectively. Addition- can be configured to have its
own set of transition points.
Each transition point can have
a checklist associated with it,
documenting the steps each
candidate must complete for
progressing beyond the transi-
tion point.

All data related to program-

based assessments can be
combined with data imported
from other systems such as the
Student Information System,
Praxis scores, survey responses,
and more. This provides faculty
members with a comprehensive
view of the work and progress
of each candidate in the unit.
Specialized Treatment for Field Experience and
Clinical Practice—It’s All Built-in.
HigherEd includes special Field experience artifacts are and any other relevant informa-
capabilities for documenting set up to document the type of tion. Candidates can record on-
candidate field experiences. activity, its location, the name going journals about the field
All aspects of field experience of the cooperating teacher and experience and get feedback
artifacts can be customized and the university supervisor. Ad- from cooperating teachers and
the data collected is recorded, ditionally, they can also record university supervisors on their
categorized, and aggregated demographics and composition performance. Completed field
for reporting. of the students in the class, the experience artifacts can be at-
number of hours, the subjects, tached to course and program
portfolios.

The system is customized to

include the full list of cooper-
ating schools and teachers as-
sociated with your unit. Each
field experience activity can
be associated with a school,
a teacher, and a supervisor.

Placement coordinators can ac-

cess detailed information such
as demographics, transcripts,
and assessments about can-
didates before making place-
ments. Coordinators can also
view customized information
about cooperating schools and
teachers, including specializa-
tions, qualifications and pay-
ment rates, allowing optimal
matches for candidate field
experience placement.

Built-in features enable

placement coordinators
to make the best match
between candidates and
teachers at cooperating
sites.
With HigherEd, Student Advisement
is Immediate and Informed.
HigherEd makes paper-based about their candidates’ assess-
advisement a thing of the past. ments at course and program
The system gives academic levels and make determinations
advisors full and complete about further requirements.
information about candidates’ They can even add notes to
academic progress and their candidate advisement records.
program requirements – right
on their computer screen. Along with a candidate’s aca-
Advisement is immediate, demic information, the system
informed and painless. also displays her program re-
quirements based on her field
The system allows advisors to of study. The system can be
obtain full academic information fully customized to include the
about their students. This includes program requirements for all
their test scores, certifications, programs at your college. Our
transcripts, and information relat- users consistently inform us
ed to all courses taken. Advisors about the usefulness of this tool
can access detailed information and the time it has saved them.
Data Import and Export
Enables Seamless Integration
with All Your Data.
HigherEd was designed to give
you reports on all your data, not
just the assessment data it ag-
gregates. That’s why we built in
the ability to import data from
other systems. HigherEd im-
ports student demographic data,
transcripts, information on all
courses, Praxis scores and other
pertinent data, and aggregates
them with the assessment, field
experience, and survey data of
your unit. The result is a seam-
less integration of all your data
in one location, giving you a
combined and complete view
of your unit’s activities. More
importantly, it lets you generate
Student
information
system
Praxis
scores
HigherEd
Other data
sources
internal and institutional reports
on all this data in an integrated
fashion.
HigherEd also exports data to
other systems. Its integrated ex-
port module can export data in
a variety of formats, to suit dif-
ferent systems. Portfolios can
be exported to CD format. All
reports generated in the system
can be exported to Microsoft
Excel for further analysis with
programs such as SPSS or for
integration with other docu-
ments. Most documents in the
system can also be exported to
Microsoft Word.
Reports to
Microsoft Excel
Documents to
Microsoft Word
Portfolios
to CDs
Export to
other formats

Get the Reports You Need, When You Need Them.
HigherEd gives you the internal
and institutional reports you
need on the entire set of your
activities.
• Categorized assessments let
you generate individual and
aggregated reports on the
meeting of conceptual frame-
work outcomes, various
standards, and the tracking
of the progress of your candi-
dates, charting their progress
through their transition points.
• Specialized field experience
features enable you to gener-
ate reports on the distribution
of candidates at different coop-
erating schools, qualifications
of the cooperating teachers,
the diversity composition of
the students and the students’
hours, subjects, etc.
• Surveys enable you to gener-
ate reports on the feedback of
your students, graduates, and
your community.
• Course-based data lets you
generate reports on faculty-to-
student and course ratios.
• Import of data from the
Student Information System
gives you reports on gender
and race distribution and
other demographics.
• Import of Praxis and other
scores let you combine all
your other data with candidate
scores, degrees, certifications,
and other qualifications.
Any information in the
HigherEd system can
be used to generate
comprehensive reports.
This includes data im-
ported from Student
Information Systems
such as BANNER, data
provided on discs from
test providers such as
ETS, and almost any
other data provided in
Microsoft Excel format.
HigherEd includes complete
capability to let you generate
your reports meeting all NCATE
standards, 1 through 6.
More importantly, these reports,
combined with the other fea-
tures in HigherEd, give you the
ability to loop-back and institute
improvements in all the activi-
ties of your unit. Since all your
data is always available instanta-
neously, not only can you track
the performance of your unit,
you can also monitor the
improvements you institute
on a regular basis.
 Online Surveys Enable Feedback
from Graduates, School Districts,
Communities, and More.
At any point that a sur- Using electronic surveys to
vey is being completed, obtain feedback from your grad-
administrators can uates, your community, your
open the survey and faculty, and your students has
view the percentage of never been easier. With High-
individuals that have erEd, the task of sending and
reporting on surveys is reduced
responded along with
to the click of a few buttons.
aggregated answers
for each question. The survey wizard allows you
to create a survey with a few
simple steps. You can create a
survey as simple or complex as
you like. You can also include
text answers, multiple choice
questions, Likert scale forms–
and they can all be created
easily.
Built-in reports allow you to
view results of your surveys
instantaneously. The answers
are automatically collated and
aggregated. You can schedule
surveys to be sent on the dates
of your choice, literally months
in advance. Automatic reminders
inform users about expiration
dates.
With HigherEd, you can make
your surveys anonymous or
identified. All data is aggregated
and can be combined with other
data for reporting.
Once a survey is created, it can
be reused through templates.
Administrators can create tem-
plates for other users, who can
then send surveys with a few
simple clicks of a mouse.
Admissions and Application Forms
Allow Students to Apply Through an
Integrated System.
The HigherEd Admissions
functionality allows your stu-
dents to apply for admission
into your programs directly
through the system. You can
customize all your application
forms, individually per program
if needed, post announcements
and instructions, and designate
appropriate staff and reviewers.
Students access this site through
a public URL and follow instruc-
tions to complete their forms.
Forms are routed to appropri-
ate personnel as designated, so
that systematic decisions can be
made on admissions. The sys-
tem allows full communication
between staff and students for
feedback and counseling dur-
ing the process and provides a
rich set of reports that allow you
to review the qualifications of
your applicants, numbers ad-
mitted, denied and the reasons
for your decisions. The data on
successful candidates becomes
a part of the students’ ongoing
record.
Application forms allow your
students to apply online for
student teaching, placement
preferences, appeals, or any
other process at the unit.
Forms can be completely cus-
tomized and reports generated,
so that you have an electronic
record of all applications made.
All data is integrated with other
data in the system, allowing
seamless reporting with other
aspects of student perfor-
mance at the unit.
About Tk20

All of our customers are happy

to serve as references on our
behalf. We believe this excellent
track record comes as no ac-
cident, but rather is a reflection
of our corporate philosophy of
serving as a true partner with
our customers.

The professionals at Tk20 un-

derstand education – and we
understand enterprise comput-
ing. That’s why our customers
repeatedly report that we offer
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