While there are many reasons why you may choose to pursue further testing for your student, here are 4 reasons to get an educational assessment.

1. Educational Assessments Help Identify a Student’s Strengths

Tests don’t have to be a living nightmare for students. While tests provide students, parents, and teachers with valuable information about their current learning gaps, they don’t just provide that. High-quality educational assessments provide a clear picture of a student’s strengths. It reveals what they are doing well, highlighting their areas of competence and proficiency.

We can no longer overlook our students’ strengths just to rush to their weaknesses and what they need to work on. Learning is hard, and students need all of the positive reinforcement and praise they can get. Educational assessments provide positive feedback for students, revealing to them what they have learned and mastered.

2. Educational Assessments Help Identify a Student’s Weaknesses

Educational assessments provide positive feedback for students, revealing to them what they have yet to learn and master. It takes some serious growth mindset work for students to respond to this well, but having clarity over a student’s weaknesses and learning gaps is of critical importance.

Once you know a student’s learning gaps, parents and teachers can partner together to help support their student. Instead of guessing as to what a student might be struggling with or a strategy that may work, educational assessments provide clear feedback with actionable next steps and valuable information.

3. Educational Assessments Help Empower Parents with Valuable Information

Many parents are left in the dark about their child’s academic progress, but even more parents are without any guidance as to how to best support their child at home. Sure, parents see homework that comes and goes, but have you seen how they teach math now?!

It’s not enough to know the 23 skills your student is not yet proficient in. Parents need (and deserve) to have access to evidence-based strategies that work in supporting their child to reach their full potential. That’s exactly what educational assessments do. With a wealth of actionable next steps and valuable information, parents can sincerely help (and feel like they are helping!) their child in their academics.

4. Educational Assessments Help Provide Timely, Relevant Feedback

Students take countless tests, but they rarely get any timely, relevant feedback.

Far too often, a student’s test results either aren’t shared with them or the results are shared in a way where the student doesn’t understand the relevance of their results. The same goes for parents: everyone knows students take standardized tests throughout their schooling career, but what good do the results do months after the day they took the test?

Comprehensive educational assessments provide timely, relevant feedback. This helps parents to advocate for their students at school; this helps teachers know how to best support their students; this helps students be aware of their academic progress, helping them to take more ownership and responsibility for their education.

At Strive Learning Solutions, we believe educational assessments should be accessible and affordable.

That’s why we offer no-cost comprehensive educational assessments when purchasing 10 sessions with our Premium Package.

With the purchase of 10 or more tutoring sessions, your child will receive a battery of assessments that tests:

• Reading (with a dyslexia screener)
• Writing
• Oral Language
• Math

You don’t have to be in the fog about your child’s academic progress.

Schedule your child’s free consultation today!