Executive Function Assessment
Powerful, Practical, and Actionable
Information About Your Child’s Executive Functioning
Discover How Your Child Learns
Every child is unique, and understanding how your child learns is the first step toward unlocking their full academic potential. Our Executive Function Learning Assessment powered by Mindprint provides clear, objective insights into your child’s individual learning strengths, allowing us to tailor our support to meet their specific needs and ensure they succeed both in and out of the classroom.
What is the EF Learning Assessment?
Our Learning Assessment is a powerful, research-based tool designed to identify your child’s strengths and areas for improvement. Developed in collaboration with experts from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and used by leading institutions like NASA, this assessment offers a deep understanding of how your child processes information and approaches tasks. With this reliable data, we can create a personalized learning plan that addresses your child’s unique needs and learning strengths.
Why It Matters
The Learning Assessment is more than just a test—it’s a personalized roadmap to academic success. By pinpointing your child’s cognitive strengths and identifying areas where they can improve, we can develop targeted strategies that enhance study habits, boost test-taking skills, and elevate their overall learning experience. Our goal is to nurture your child’s strengths and provide the support they need to transform challenges into opportunities for growth.
Who should take this Assessment?
Every student can benefit from the EF Assessment. Our goal is to provide personalized executive function support to help students achieve their academic goals, and the EF Assessment is the first step. We can develop a customized plan for your child’s success by pinpointing your student's strengths and areas for improvement.
Watch the video learn more about the assessment
Is Your Child Preparing for the SAT or ACT?
Our specialized assessment can help determine which test your child will excel in, offering score projections and targeted strategies based on their cognitive strengths. Learn more about our SAT/ACT Assessment.
How It works
Step 1: Take the Online Learning Assessment
Your child will complete a one-hour, online assessment designed to measure 10 essential cognitive and executive functions, including memory, processing speed, and complex reasoning. This self-administered assessment is suitable for English-speaking students aged 8 to 21.
Step 2: Understand the Results
You’ll have a consultation call with our Assessment expert and receive a detailed Learner Profile that highlights your child’s strengths, areas for growth, and actionable strategies for improvement. This profile provides a comprehensive view of how your child learns best and what EF skills need to be strengthened.
Step 3: Start Personalized Coaching
Armed with the insights from the Learner Profile, our expert academic coaches will design a personalized plan customized for your child’s unique needs. This plan focuses on enhancing executive function skills, improving study habits, and boosting overall academic performance.
Is the Learning Assessment Right for Your Child?
Whether your child is excelling in school or facing academic challenges, the Illuminos Learning Assessment is the first step toward personalized, effective learning strategies. This assessment benefits all students, offering insights that can support their success now and in the future.
Why Choose Illuminos?
Expert-Developed: Backed by NIH-funded research and used by top organizations like NASA, our assessment provides the highest standard of cognitive evaluation.
Personalized Approach: The detailed Learner Profile allows us to tailor our coaching specifically to your child’s learning strenghts and needs.
Comprehensive Support: Our coaches are committed to helping your child develop the skills they need to succeed in all aspects of life—academically and beyond.
Ready to Get Started?
Help your child achieve their best. Schedule your child’s Learning Assessment today and take the first step toward unlocking their full potential.
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FAQs
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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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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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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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To provide the most effective personalized coaching, we need to understand how your child learns and how their EF skills are impacting their learning. This assessment gives us the insights we need to tailor our approach specifically to your child’s strengths and challenges.
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 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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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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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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Our assessment focuses on practical, actionable insights into your child’s learning style, rather than just providing a diagnosis. It’s designed to be directly applicable to improving academic performance and executive functioning.
Is Your Child Planning to take the SAT or ACT? Our SAT/ACT assessment can help there too!
The SAT/ACT preparation assessment advises which test your child will perform better on and by how much based on your student’s natural test-taking capabilities and the nuanced differences between the two tests.
Learn precise score projections.
Identify the most opportunity for growth so your child can spend his or her time most effectively preparing for these college entrance exams.
Receive recommendations for the highest impact strategies based on your child’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses.