How do I access and/or use data from the nXu Assessment System?

The nXu Assessment System helps educators understand how students perceive their growth over the course of the school year. Students complete a single end-of-year retrospective survey that measures growth across the durable skills developed through the nXu Curriculum.

The assessment is designed not as a grading tool, but as a way to reflect on student development, celebrate strengths, and inform future planning.

What does the nXu Assessment measure?

The assessment asks students to reflect on how they have changed since the beginning of the school year. Each question is answered using a 5-point Likert scale and measures one or more validated skills from the nXu Curriculum Framework.

The assessment can be customized to include up to  24 research-validated skills*, including:

• Self-Awareness

• Self-Management

• Social Awareness

• Relationship Skills

• Responsible Decision-Making

• …And many more

*To support a high-quality student experience and meaningful results, nXu recommends assessing no more than six skills at a time.

Before you begin

We recommend administering the assessment after you have:

1. Set up educator and student accounts.

2. Customized your nXu curriculum and Scope & Sequence.

3. Implemented the majority of your nXu curriculum with students during the year, semester, or program. 

The assessment is intended to capture students' reflections after participating in the nXu learning experience.

Creating an assessment

Navigate to: Communication (in the top navigation bar) → Custom Surveys

From here, you have two options:

Option 1: Start from an nXu template (recommended)

The assessment templates are aligned to the nXu Curriculum Scope & Sequence templates, so that students are assessed on the skills that show up most commonly throughout those specific lessons. 

When creating a template-based survey, you will:

1. Select your Scope & Sequence.

2. Enter survey details, including:

   • Survey title

   • Open and due dates

   • Required or optional status

   • Editing permissions

3. Review the included skill sections. (You can customize the questions by following the section below.) 

4. Assign the survey to students.

Option 2: Create a custom assessment

You can also build your own survey from scratch. This allows schools to design a reliable, validated survey to assess students’ durable skills as a means to measure progress toward their Profile of a Graduate. 

A custom assessment allows you to:

• Build your own sections

• Select questions from the nXu Question Bank

• Add school- or organization-specific questions alongside nXu questions

This option provides greater flexibility while still allowing you to include validated nXu assessment items.

Customizing assessment questions

When using an nXu template:

• All questions associated with a particular skill are automatically included to preserve the validity of the assessment.

• You may remove an entire skill section if it is not relevant to your implementation, or add an entire skill section.

• You may reorder skill sections using drag-and-drop.

• You may also add your own custom questions or create entirely new sections.

Assigning the assessment

Once your survey is finalized:

1. Save the survey.

2. Assign students individually or in bulk.

3. Deploy the survey.

After the survey is available, Overgrad allows you to monitor student completion until all responses have been submitted.

Viewing assessment results

After students begin completing the survey, select the survey to open its analytics dashboard.

Within the dashboard, you can review:

• Overall survey results

• Results for individual skills

• Completion progress

You can also filter results using dropdown menus, including:

• Grade level

• Educator or facilitator

• Counselor

• Other available student groups and demographic breakdowns

These filters make it easy to better understand how different groups of students are experiencing growth.

Using assessment data

The nXu Assessment System is designed to support reflection and continuous improvement—not simply reporting.

Consider using the results to:

• Celebrate student strengths and areas of growth.

• Identify skills that may benefit from additional instruction or reinforcement.

• Inform planning for future lessons or implementation priorities, and identify opportunities to reinforce durable skills across the broader school community through classroom and shared experiences.

• Reflect on trends across classrooms, grade levels, or student groups.

• Collaborate with other educators, counselors, or school leaders to better understand student development over time.

Because the assessment is retrospective, it provides valuable insight into how students perceive their own growth after participating in the nXu curriculum.

Need additional support?

If you have questions about:

• Using the Overgrad platform or troubleshooting technology, contact support@overgrad.com.

• The nXu Assessment System, curriculum, or implementation, contact support@nxueducation.org.