Understand How Your Child Learns Best With OUR Learning Assessment
Gaining insight into HOW a student learns best is the key to Enabling them to reach their full potential
The Illuminos Learning Assessment uses objective cognitive data to pinpoint how each student learns. We require this assessment so we can learn more about your child’s learning styles, as well as their Executive Functioning strengths and weaknesses.
The assessment was developed through a National Institute of Health research grant at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in collaboration with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the #2 ranked children’s hospital in the US. It is also used regularly by NASA.
Nurture strengths & Work on Weaknesses
Completing the learning assessment helps us create the targeted strategies to improve your student’s study skills and test-taking performance. Our coaches will design activities to nurture strengths and work on weaknesses in an engaging and meaningful way. The Learning Assessment provides concrete suggestions for the right instructional support for each student’s individual needs.
Objective Cognitive Data & Actionable Information
The Learning assessment measures 10 essential cognitive and executive functions. The personalized results will be presented as a detailed Learner Profile. It provides valid, reliable measures of Executive Functioning skills, complex reasoning, memory, and processing. We use the results of the assessment to tailor our science-based, research-driven, Executive Functioning curriculum to your child’s specific strengths and weaknesses.
Is the Learning Assessment right for my student?
The Learning Assessment benefits all students! Since our mission is to give students the personalized support they need to develop their executive function skills, the assessment is the first step in identifying their strengths and weaknesses.
Our coaches will review your student’s Learner Profile to develop a personalized success plan utilizing our Executive Function curriculum.
How does the Illuminos Learning Assessment work?
The online, one-hour Learning Assessment is taken by your student. The assessment is designed for English-speaking students between the ages of 8 and 21.
After the assessment is completed, an Illuminos academic coach will provide a 30-minute comprehensive analysis of your student’s Learner Profile, which includes a breakdown of strengths and weaknesses, along with how they can improve.
How to Take the Illuminos EF Assessment
Step 1: Take the Online Learning Assessment
Your student will take the one-hour, online, self-administered assessment to identify their learning strengths and needs. The assessment measures executive functions, complex reasoning, memory, and processing.
Step 2: Receive the Learner Profile
A Learner Profile is created within 3 business days that highlighting strengths, needs and strategies to improve learning. An expert analysis of your student’s test results will be provided as a 30-minute review meeting, scheduled at your convenience.
Step 3: Start Personalized Academic Coaching with Illuminos
An Illuminos academic coach creates a personalized improvement plan for your student. The coach provides individualized curriculum of Executive Functioning skills for academic improvement and test performance for the student.
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Frequently Asked Questions About the Learning Assessment
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Cognitive skills are the best predictor of academic outcomes and show over 50% of the variability in student achievement, significantly higher than any other known factor.
Help your Illuminos coach understand why your child is struggling.
One hour online, parent monitored assessment provides your coach with a specific guide to your child’s needs.
Identify your child’s primary challenge - focus and organization versus a difficulty with understanding.
Gain clear objective insights into your child’s core capacities, free from bias.
Receive a personalized learning plan for your child.
Personalized instructional recommendations based on your child’s cognitive strengths and needs.
Individualized recommendations for home and school support.
Evidence-based results that you can share with child’s teachers, counselor’s, learning specialists case managers to help them understand and provide support for struggling or gifted students.
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The Learning Assessment is not a substitute for neuropsychological or psychoeducational testing. Additionally, the Learning Assessment does not provide a medical diagnosis and cannot be used for the purposes of seeking school accommodations.
However, the strengths and needs identified by the Learning Assessment do typically agree with the findings from neuropsychological or psychoeducational testing. Parents, professionals, schools, and academic coaches use the Learning Assessment in combination with other assessments and observations to make informed decisions about how best to help children with specific learning needs.
In short, the emphasis of neuropsychological or psychoeducational testing is primarily problem identification while the emphasis of the Learning Assessment is primarily solution strategies.
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Cognitive skills tests identify how a student learns, understands, and recalls information. Most school tests assess academic skills or achievements, which focus on what a student knows. Understanding a student’s cognitive strengths and needs can be the key to more efficient and enjoyable learning. As demands on students increase as they matriculate, maximizing efficiency is one of the keys to ongoing success.
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The Learning Assessment evaluates 10 core cognitive skills critical to learning proficiency:
Reasoning: Abstract, Verbal, Spatial
Executive Functions: Attention, Working Memory, Flexible Thinking
Memory: Verbal, Visual
Speed: Processing, Visual Motor
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The Learning Assessment questions are computerized and adaptive, meaning students receive different questions based on their answers. Unlike school achievement tests, there are no reading passages and no math computations.
There is nothing students need to do in preparation for taking the assessment, though it is important to take it in a quiet location with reliable internet access for the full hour. Most students describe the questions as a series of puzzles and often say it is fun.
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You will receive a detailed and personalized report called a Learner Profile, which provides a thorough explanation of a student’s performance across the ten skills. It then suggests specific learning strategies that can be used in school and at home to improve performance outcomes.
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The Learning Assessment is designed for English-speaking students ages 8 to 21 and is scored using national standardized data of same-aged students. However, there is an adult version of the assessment (utilized by NASA and other companies) that we are happy to arrange for interested parents. Just contact us for additional information.
Students should meet the following criteria:
Reading English at or above a 2nd grade level
Able to follow simple, multi-step instructions independently
Comfortable using a computer mouse & keyboard
Able to read a computer screen independently
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Here are some videos we recommend that explain the Learning Assessment:
TED Talk: How your brain's executive function works and how to improve it
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