The Sylvan Insight™ Assessment: Turning Your Child’s Education From Unknown to Known
By: Mark Kance & Lauren Niglio
Understandably, many of the parents we speak to at Sylvan are worried about gaps in instruction. And then there are the students, who are experiencing first-hand the slew of educational changes.
The good news?
Students living through these difficult times are adapting, and that is precisely what makes children so powerful: Their resilience. Kids are always up for a new challenge!
But, what if parents don’t know what gaps their student has in the material in front of him/her, or how to help? It’s hard to solve a problem if you don’t know exactly what the problem is.
That’s where your local Sylvan comes in—we’re here to help your children catch up, keep up or get ahead, so your kids get the most out of their education.
How? It all starts with our Sylvan Insight Assessment. With our unique assessment, your child’s academic needs don’t have to be another unknown this year.
The Sylvan Insight Assessment
We think the Sylvan Insight Assessment is an excellent tool, as it allows us to help families pinpoint their child’s exact academic level.
Led by a Sylvan staff member, we utilize a combination of adaptive computer, paper-based and other interactive sections. The assessment begins with questions and topics that are considered on-grade level. However, depending on student performance, the assessment subtly adapts so that we can fine tune the true academic level of each student.
Because the assessment adapts, most students report that the assessment was neither too hard, nor too easy and come out of the assessment experience feeling positive. To top it off, when students put forth a good effort, they can earn tokens, and they can use these tokens to shop in the Sylvan Store (filled with toys and other student-centric items) as a reward for their hard work and effort. We see kids of all ages LOVE this part!
(By the way, the fun doesn’t stop there! Your local Sylvan Store is part of our proven motivation system and is available to students after each tutoring session with us, so students can spend the tokens they earned through their hard work and effort.)
Back to the assessment … We have assessments for grades PreK-12. To assess one subject, it can take 20-30 minutes. If you’d like a full view of reading, writing and math, that typically takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes complete.
For younger students, we also assess letter recognition, sounds, sight words and basic math facts.
For middle and high school students, Sylvan also has a Study Skills Qualifier assessment to ensure they are prepared to get organized, manage their time, understand themselves as learners, take notes from a variety of sources and more!