What to Do After a Post-Assessment
A post-assessment closes out a domain by measuring how much a group has grown since the pre-assessment. Once your group finishes a post-assessment, here’s what it feeds into and where to look next.
How It Landed on Your Session
You don’t schedule post-assessments. Spark puts them on the final sessions of a program on whichever of two triggers comes first: enough of the group has finished the lesson sequence and enough sessions remain to fit the post-assessments in, or only just enough sessions remain before the group’s planned last session regardless of readiness. End-of-program reporting depends on this data, so the second trigger always fires.
A student who still owes a post-assessment gets it on their next session even if the group has already moved past that point. See How Content Gets Assigned to Your Sessions.
Where the Results Show Up
Post-assessment scores roll into the Growth Report, which compares your group’s pre-assessment and post-assessment performance so you can see how much the group improved. You can review individual student detail in the Progress Report.
What a Post-Assessment Does and Doesn’t Change
Post-assessment performance feeds group-level growth signals - the picture of how the group did overall. It does not change any individual student’s skill mastery. Skill mastery updates from activity data during lessons, not from assessment scores. For more on how that works, see Skill mastery: how it’s measured.
Moving to the Next Domain
Deciding whether a group is ready to move on to the next Math domain, or should reteach specific lessons first, is guided by Braintrust’s Instructional Support team. If you’re unsure what to do after a post-assessment, reach out to them for direction on next steps for your group.