The only schoolwide assessment that objectively measures student learning strengths
Cognitive skills are the best predictor of academic outcomes. Learning scientists show cognitive skills explain over 50% of the variability in student achievement, significantly higher than any other known factor. With MindPrint, teachers know why students aren't succeeding and how to support them.
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MindPrint Profile
Cognitive Skills
Research
MindPrint is many things but above all else it is a new lens. A new lens on our students. A new lens on our teachers. A new lens on ourselves. You wonder about your kids, and then you get the results. It's like putting on the perfect pair of glasses -- all of a sudden, "Boom it's all clear." That's what it's like with MindPrint. Seriously folks, this is game-changing. Game-changing.
Crystal Braswell
Little Rock Public Schools Vice Principal
Assessment Facts
Our assessment is online and self-administered for easy individual or group administration at any location, and at any time. With district pricing as low as $10 per student, MindPrint is the affordable, effective and efficient solution you need to improve learner outcomes. The assessment was developed through a National Institute of Health research grant at the University of Pennsylvania's Pereleman School of Medicine in collaboration with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the #2 ranked children's hospital in the US.
Test for only
1
hour
every 3 years
Test all students
8
years
and older
Normed with
10,000
students
representative across age, gender, race and ethnicity
MindPrint Profile
Strengths-Based Approach to Learning
At the core of our solution is the MindPrint profile which identifies a student's learning strengths in straight-forward terminology with actionable next steps to support academic and social emotional growth across subjects.
MindPrint provides objective measures across core domains of executive functions, complex reasoning, memory, and speed so teachers know how to support students by subject.
Complex Reasoning
Complex Reasoning is your ability to understand and analyze new information, and solve problems.
Verbal Reasoning
Understanding and applying what you read and hear.
Verbal Reasoning is important for:
Inferential Reasoning
Reading Comprehension
Reading Fluency
Semantic Knowledge
Vocabulary
Writing
Abstract Reasoning
Understanding non-language-based information, including images, numbers, shapes, patterns, and challenging concepts.
Abstract Reasoning is important for:
Advanced Math
Computational Thinking
Engineering
Inferential Reasoning
Physics
Science
Spatial Perception
Visualizing and understanding how objects relate in space.
Spatial Perception is important for:
Art
Design
Engineering
Geometry
Physics
Visual Processing
Memory
Memory is how easily you can store new information and efficiently recall it at a future time.
Verbal Memory
Remembering what you read or hear.
Verbal Memory is important for:
Math Facts
Math Operations
Reading Fluency
Semantic Knowledge
Sight Words
Vocabulary
Visual Memory
Remembering formulas, figures, and pictures or other non-language-based information.
Visual Memory is important for:
Art
Design
Math Facts
Math Operations
Science
Sight Words
Executive Functions
EF refer to how efficiently you can complete your assignments (regardless of how well you know and understand the information).
Attention
Sustaining focus to work accurately and efficiently.
Attention is important for:
Conscientiousness
Focus
Following Directions
Follow-Through
Impulsivity
Self-Regulation
Working Memory
Juggling information in your head for multi-step problem solving or tasks.
Working Memory is important for:
Conscientiousness
Following Directions
Organization
Planning
Problem Solving
Self-Management
Flexible Thinking
Adapting to unfamiliar information or situations.
Flexible Thinking is important for:
Adaptability
Collaboration
Computational Thinking
Decision-Making
Problem Solving
Relationship Skills
Speed
Speed is how efficiently you work to complete assignments thoughtfully within the expected time.
Processing Speed
Responding by balancing speed and accuracy.
Processing Speed is important for:
Class Participation
Focus
Follow-Through
Listening
Note-Taking
Standardized Test-Taking
Visual Motor Speed
The rate of seeing and physically responding.
Visual Motor Speed is important for:
Handwriting
Note-Taking
Standardized Test-Taking
MindPrint's ability to show such high levels of predictability is unprecedented in K-12. Now that we can pinpoint the reasons for students’ challenges in areas of cognition, engagement or social-emotional skills, we have the capability to dramatically improve outcomes for students at all achievement levels.
Dr. Jess Gropen
Senior Research Scientist at CAST
Research
MindPrint’s cognitive screener was developed by neuroscientists at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine through a National Institutes of Health grant. This online assessment is so reliable and efficient NASA uses it to test the astronauts during long-duration space flights.
A cognitive neuroscience based computerized battery for efficient measurement of individual differences: Standardization and initial construct validation
This paper details the methodology behind the development of the MindPrint Assessment and provides reliability and validity evidence.
Enhanced MindPrint profiles: Integrating cognitive and self-regulatory strategies to improve mathematical outcomes
This report summarizes the findings from Phase I of MindPrint's NSF SBIR grant. We provide reliability and validity evidence for our social and emotional skills assessment, and we show how the MindPrint Assessment and the social and emotional skills assessment can account for nearly 64% of the variance in MAP Growth scores.
Multimethod support for using the Big Five framework to organize social and emotional skills
This paper, written by Dr. Kate Walton, MindPrint's Director of Research, tackles a challenge to the field of SEL — the overabundance of disparate and empirically unfounded SEL frameworks. Walton and colleagues provide empirical support for using the well-known Big Five personality framework for organizing social and emotional skills.
Development and Validation of the Cognition Test Battery for Spaceflight
MindPrint's cognitive assessment was the same one used to understand the impacts of long-duration spaceflight in the seminal NASA Twins study. Just think, you could discover that your students think just like NASA astronauts!
I don't think I've ever seen a test that kids can take that gives you more information about them. Unlike other tests, MindPrint actually helps you understand the deeper recesses of a child's mind. I haven't seen anything close to it in my 41 years in education.
Karen Gartland
Math Curriculum Director Groton-Dunstable Regional School District, MA