HES Starter Kit: Benefits
Who benefits and how?
Academic programs, faculty, students, ASHA, CAA, CAPCSD, and the CSD discipline all benefit from a centralized data collection system for CSD.
Academic Programs and Faculty Members
- Increased efficiency for programs completing HES instruments through
- prepopulation of data across instruments and reporting periods reducing redundant reporting of the same data for various instruments
- use of a standard format across instruments to access and enter data
- consistent reporting periods (e.g., 2007-08 academic year)
- easy Web-based submission of responses and updates
- built-in validations to ensure accuracy of data entry
- Aid in benchmarking and trend analysis of data for programs with similar characteristics across the discipline.
- EdFind for marketing individual programs
- Public reports of aggregate data about the discipline
Students
- Search interface for master's and doctoral programs in audiology, speech-language pathology, and speech and hearing science
- Identification of programs in individual states or by distinct program characteristics, such as distance education, part-time enrollment, and multicultural/bilingual emphasis
- Information about programs including application and admission, enrollment and graduation, tuition and funding, specialty tracks, unique features, and research interests
CSD Discipline
- Increased consistency of data collection on a coordinated schedule with annual reporting on data in the discipline
- Comprehensive data to identify and analyze trends to support discipline-wide efforts for programs
- Information collected via the HES helps address initiatives important to CSD
ASHA
- Comprehensive data that informs ASHA initiatives undertaken on behalf of the discipline in areas such as
- PhD shortage in higher education
- personnel shortages in the professions
- recruitment and retention of diverse student populations
- internationalization
- specialization
- research initiatives
- advocacy
- Accurate and timely responses to member inquiries for data and trends about CSD education.
CAA
- Trend analysis across accredited programs
- Inform the effectiveness of accreditation standards at producing quality academic programs and graduates
- Monitor the effectiveness of meeting mission and goals as an accrediting agency (program improvement)
- Identify issues affecting faculty, curriculum, program and student assessment, and program resources that are evident across accredited graduate programs
- Consistency in program reporting
- Evaluate program interpretation of standards
- Inform program educational opportunities
CAPCSD
- Consistency in the format and method of data gathering to increase participation by academic programs, thus improving validity of the data for the discipline
- Identification of trends and formulation of strategies beneficial to CSD departments nationally and internationally
- Increased accuracy of data collected in surveys through Web-based data entry
- Decreased turnaround time for publishing survey results