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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Crystal Braswell
Little Rock Public Schools Vice Principal
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.

MindPrint Assessment

Our assessment is online and self-administered for easy individual or group administration at any location, and at any time. 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.

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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.
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Cognitive Skills

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
Dr. Jess Gropen
Senior Research Scientist at CAST
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.

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Research & Efficacy

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.

Linking Study: The Correlation Between the MindPrint Cognitive Assessment and the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA)

The MindPrint assessment predicts student outcomes on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, accounting for performance on Mathematics (44%), English Language Arts (40%), and Science (41%).

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Linking Study: The Correlation Between the MindPrint Cognitive Assessment and the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA)

The Correlation Between the MindPrint Cognitive Assessment and the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA)

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Student Academic Growth Increases with MindPrint's BOOST Yourself Course

Preliminary results show students who actively participated in MindPrint's BOOST Yourself course met academic growth goals at a significantly improved rate. Students maintained higher growth for a full-term after course completion.

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Digital Promise Research Shows MindPrint Improves Teacher and Student Self-Efficacy

Preliminary results of research led by Digital Promise and funded by the Walton Family Foundation shows early indications that using student cognitive data can improve self-efficacy in students and teachers.

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MindPrint Can Improve Teacher Efficacy and Student Outcomes

New efficacy research conducted by Digital Promise and through our National Science Foundation grant shows that in just one semester teachers want MindPrint in their classrooms, teachers feel more confident and effective, and 10-15% more students show growth in math and reading scores on normed assessments.

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Validity and Reliability of the MindPrint Cognitive Assessment in Educational Contexts for Students Ages 8-21

The growing recognition of executive functions and other higher order cognitive functions in predicting student outcomes has prompted the demand for efficient and reliable methods of measuring a student's cognitive abilities. MindPrint was developed to measure performance across a range of neurobehavioral domains using a computerized neurocognitive battery.

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What Works in Professional Learning

Digital Promise research, sponsored by a Walton Family Foundation grant, is ongoing to demonstrate the effect of the MindPrint Solution on teacher efficacy and student outcomes.

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Accelerating Outcomes with High-Dosage Tutoring

High-dosage tutoring is one of the most effective ways to produce learning gains for a broad variety of students. MindPrint can enable schools to scale high-dosage tutoring affordably while adhering to core principles outlined by Brown University's Annenberg Center.

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50 Years of Research Findings on Intellectual Capabilities

This paper summarizes the key findings of Intellectual Precocity: What Have We Learned Since Terman? and explain how these findings have been directly translated into features of the MindPrint solution. It details the measurements of intellectual capability, describes how intellectual capability correlates longitudinally with academic and career achievement across student sub-populations, and suggests implications for educational and counselor interventions to enable students to live up to their full potential.

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Validity Evidence Supporting the MindPrint Solution in Academic Contexts

This third party research, funded by NSF Grant 2133397, establishes the validity and reliability of MindPrint's social-emotional screener of eight core skill constructs. This research study demonstrates that the MindPrint cognitive assessment, in combination with demographic variables and the social-emotional screener, explained 64% of the variance in MAP Growth scores.

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An Effective Comprehensive Assessment System: The Case for Adding Cognitive Assessment

This paper details how cognitive assessments offer the unique capacity to objectively and efficiently pinpoint the reasons for variability in performance across traditional assessments, thus making data interpretation straightforward for key stakeholders.

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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.

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Psychometric properties of the Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery

This paper provides additional validity evidence for the MindPrint Assessment, supporting its feasibility for large-scale use cases.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Scalable Implementation of Learning Sciences

This whitepaper details the MindPrint Theory of Action and direct connection to improve academic and social and emotional outcomes.

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Karen Gartland
Math Curriculum Director Groton-Dunstable Regional School District, MA
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.

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