Anewhigh-ordertime-steppingfiniteelementmethodbaseduponthehigh-ordernumericalintegrationformulaisformulatedforSobolevequations,whosecomputationsconsistofaniterationprocedurecoupledwithasystemoftwoellipticequations.Theoptimalandsuperconvergenceerrorestimatesforthisnewmethodarederivedbothinspaceandintime.Also,aclassofnewerrorestimatesofconvergenceandsuperconvergenceforthetime-continuousfiniteelementmethodisdemonstratedinwhichtherearenotimederivativesoftheexactsolutioninvolved,suchthattheseestimatescanbeboundedbythenormsoftheknowndata.Moreover,someusefula-posteriorierrorestimatorsaregivenonthebasisofthesuperconvergenceestimates.