HUB Benchmark is the comprehensive human skills assessment. Students demonstrate skills in performance tasks and self-report on their application; teachers rate the same skills, and AI analysis scores what students said against the human skill framework. One score per skill, three times a year.
HUB Benchmark supports:
Solution overview
HUB Benchmark happens in the fall, winter, and spring. Students work through performance tasks in small groups and self-report on their application of the skills, and every score reflects the skills students are expected to demonstrate for their grade band.
How students believe they applied the skills during the performance task, captured immediately afterward so the response is anchored to something they just did.
How teachers rate the same skills using the framework's shared definitions, turning daily observation into comparable data.
Student conversation is transcribed and scored against the grade-appropriate observables in the Human Skills Framework, then mapped to the competencies your district has identified as important.
Human skills show up in what students say and do. The benchmark starts there, with a performance task, and carries that evidence through to a number a district can report and a next step a teacher can take.
AI Analysis
Student conversation is captured and transcribed, then scored against the grade-appropriate observables that define each human skill within the competency-based framework. Every observable is rated on how fully a student demonstrated it, from rarely through partially, mostly, and fully.
See How Scoring WorksScale Score
AI analysis of benchmark observations produces a scale score from 0 to 400 for each human skill. Scores are reported by class, school, and district against the expectations for each grade band, with consistency as students move through grade levels.
Insights
The report shows where each human skill stands, then opens into the strands and observables underneath it. A teacher sees which specific behaviors students demonstrated and which ones did not show up, alongside the lessons and experiences that build them.
What's included
Students work in small groups on grade-appropriate challenges they can't solve alone, then self-report how they applied the skills while the experience is still fresh. The assessment covers all four categories of the Human Skills Framework.
Students work through a grade-appropriate challenge as a group. Planning, communication, and collaboration surface in an authentic and real-world way.
Skills measured: Collaboration, Communication, Social Awareness
Immediately after the group task, students self-report on how they applied their skills. The reflection is anchored in the experience they just had, while the details remain sharp.
Skills measured: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Self-Efficacy
In small groups, students take on a creative challenge with no obvious answer. The work calls for original thinking, systems reasoning, and the willingness to pursue an unexpected solution.
Skills measured: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Systems Thinking
Following the performance task, students name the challenges they encountered, the effort they put in, and the strategies they used. This is where persistence and curiosity become visible in students' own words.
Skills measured: Perseverance, Curiosity, Resilience
Every task, reflection, score, and report draws from one structure: 4 categories, 12 human skills, 48 observable strands, each defined clearly enough to see, measure, and teach. Scoring reaches the observables underneath each strand, so the detail matches the grade band in scope.
The skills crosswalk to your Portrait of a Learner, SEL competencies, and College and Career indicators. One shared structure connects measurement, reporting, and instruction across your entire district.
Explore the Human Skills Framework
One assessment, the same data and the same language, wherever human skills are being built.
Three windows a year give MTSS teams the same screen-and-monitor cadence they already know for reading and math, with Pulse Checks tracking whether support is working in between.
Human skills data arrives in fall, winter, and spring, so it reaches your data teams in the same cycle they already use to review achievement. The skills students bring to academic work become part of the same conversation.
Districts that invest in SEL, Portrait of a Learner, and human skills priorities get asked to show it is working. HUB Benchmark provides performance-based evidence of skill growth, reported against the competencies your board and community recognize.
In a 30-minute demo, we will walk through the assessment experience, show you the scale score and the reporting behind it, and explore how the data connects to your district's priorities at every level.