The graduated approach · Assess
Start every learner from evidence, not guesswork
Assess is the opening stage of the graduated approach: identify every learner's cognitive profile and the context behind it, so support starts from evidence, not disclosure or instinct.
- Every learner
- assessed at onboarding, no exceptions
- ~30 min
- no specialist required to administer or interpret
- One evidence base
- every support decision starts here
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How Cognassist helps providers assess every learner
A short overview of the assess stage: what the cognitive assessment involves, and how it becomes the evidence base that every later decision traces back to.
Why assessment-led inclusion beats guesswork
Disclosure and instinct only surface what learners already know about themselves and choose to declare, so most cognitive differences stay unseen and support depends on who is in the room. Cognassist assesses every learner instead, across your FE and apprenticeship cohorts, so every decision starts from the same objective evidence.
- Whole-cohort and performance-based: every learner completes the cognitive assessment at onboarding in about 30 minutes, measuring how they actually think and learn.
- No specialist required to administer or interpret it, so your specialists are freed for the most complex cases, never replaced.
- The result is a strengths-forward cognitive diversity report and a signal that guides professional judgement, never a diagnosis: identify the profile, then decide the right support.
Where Assess sits: the opening stage of the graduated approach
Everything downstream, the plan, the support you deliver and the evidence you can show, traces back to what happens here. Assess is where the golden thread begins.
Step 01 of 04
Assess
Identify every learner's cognitive profile and capture their context, so support starts from evidence.
- Whole-cohort, no specialist required
- The current stage
Step 02 of 04
Plan
Turn the assessed need into a support plan, co-created with the learner.
Step 03 of 04
Do
Deliver reasonable adjustments in the flow of teaching, and record them as you go.
Step 04 of 04
Review
Review progress and adjust the plan, so support stays responsive over time.
What Assess gives you
Two capabilities, one job
Assess is two capabilities working as one: identify every learner's cognitive profile, then decide the right support the same defensible way for every learner.
The cognitive assessment
Every learner assessed in about 30 minutes, no specialist required. Nine cognitive domains across three indexes, and a strengths-forward cognitive diversity report.
ExploreConsistent support decisions
Turn the assessment signal into the right support, matched from the assessed need and captured with its rationale. The platform proposes; your team decides, with the learner.
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Customer story · Hawk Training
Every learner assessed, not just those who disclose
Hawk Training made the cognitive assessment a standard part of onboarding, so every apprentice is identified from evidence, not disclosure. The result is a consistent, whole-provider basis for support that no longer depends on who is in the room.
See the Assess stage in practice
Book a demo and we will show how a learner is assessed and how that becomes a consistent, defensible support decision. Start every learner from evidence, not guesswork.