Personalizing the Picture of Highly Able Learners
The HAGT PRISM© Questionnaire (Profile of Reasoning, Interests, Supports, & Motivation) is a free, interactive tool that generates a personalized learning profile for your child, revealing their interests, thinking patterns, motivations, and ideal learning environment.
Developed by the HAGT Collaborative, it is designed for highly able students from Grade 2 through Grade 8 and explores four dimensions of how your child engages with the world, turning their responses into a rich profile you can use to support them at home and advocate for them at school. Every child thinks and learns differently. PRISM© helps you see exactly how.
What the PRISM© Snapshot Includes
Understanding how a child learns is the first step to supporting them well. The PRISM© Snapshot breaks that down across four dimensions, each one giving you something specific and actionable.
Interests and Curiosities
What topics, ideas, and domains
genuinely light a child up,
from the sciences and humanities
to the arts and beyond.
Motivational Drivers
What energizes them, whether that is
mastery, challenge, collaboration,
autonomy, or something else entirely.
Thinking Patterns
How they approach problems, process information, and makes sense of
the world around them.
Learning Preferences
Conditions, formats, and environments
where a child does their best thinking
and deepest learning.
How It Works
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Create Your Free Account
Getting started takes fewer than two minutes. Sign up by entering your email address; once you confirm it, you will be directed straight to the questionnaire. Your account is where the child's profile will be saved, so you can return to it anytime.
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The Child Takes the Questionnaire
The questionnaire is scenario-based and interactive, with age-appropriate versions for younger learners (Grade 2 to Grade 4) and older students (Grade 5 to Grade 8). It typically takes 20 to 40 minutes for the child to complete and feels more like an exploration than a test.
Looking for more?
Sign up for the Adventure Series.
A four-week project built around a student’s interests and unique way of thinking, designed from their PRISM© profile and supported throughout by instructors and mentors.
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Their PRISM© Snapshot Is Generated
Once complete, a personalized snapshot is created and saved to your account. Log back in anytime to view it. Use the free snapshot to start conversations at home and at school or go deeper with an optional detailed report and a one-on-one consultation with our HAGT specialist.
What You Get
PRISM© is designed to be accessible. Completing the questionnaire provides a free PRISM© Snapshot, a personalized overview covering the four dimensions of a child’s learning identity.
The PRISM© Profile is available as a paid option, pairing a comprehensive written report with a one-on-one consultation with an HAGT specialist. Where the PRISM© Snapshot shows you the picture, the PRISM© Profile helps you understand it fully and act on it with confidence. Whether you looking for ways to better support a child at home, or simply want expert eyes on what the picture reveals, the PRISM© Profile gives you the tools, language, and guidance to move forward.
What The PRISM© Profile includes
Grade Level
Development
Zone
Zone
A brief executive summary introducing how their mind works and what makes them tick as a learner.
Their dominant areas of curiosity and how they naturally connect ideas across different fields.
How they tend to approach problems, process information, and take in new concepts.
What genuinely drives and motivates them, and the conditions where that motivation shows up most.
The learning environment, pace, and feedback style where they do their best work.
The PRISM© Snapshot
Once the child completes the HAGT PRISM© Questionnaire, they receive a personalized free PRISM© Snapshot. Everything in the PRISM© Snapshot is visual, accessible, and designed to be used as a reference. It is saved to your account, accessible anytime, and covers:
A deeper interpretation of a child's cognitive profile, including where asynchronous development meets their zone of proximal development.
Practical, specific ways to restructure the home environment to reduce friction and support executive function and autonomous learning.
Identification of the high-complexity pathways and interest areas that sustain deep engagement and flow alongside curated challenges and topics beyond the standard curriculum, matched to the child's profile.
The professional and collaborative vocabulary to confidently communicate the child's specific instructional needs to teachers and school leadership.
The PRISM©
Profile
While the free PRISM© Snapshot shows you what the child's learning landscape looks like, the PRISM© Profile helps you make sense of it, with expert interpretation, practical strategies, and a tailored plan so you know exactly how to support them at home and at school to help champion their needs at school.
One-on-one consultation with an HAGT Collaborative specialist to walk through a detailed personalized report, answer your questions, and discuss next steps.
Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Started
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There is a button at the top of this page that will take you directly to the HAGT PRISM© questionnaire. You can also click here to head straight there.
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Once you are on the PRISM© page, you will need to create a free account to get started. You will find the option to create an account under the sign in button. It takes less than two minutes to set up.
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Yes. You will need a free HAGT PRISM© account to access the questionnaire. Simply enter your email address, confirm it, and you will be directed straight to the questionnaire. Your account is also where the child's PRISM© Snapshot will be saved so you can return to it anytime.
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The questionnaire and PRISM© Snapshot are completely free. The PRISM© Profile, which includes a comprehensive written report and a 50-minute one-on-one consultation, is available as a paid option for those who want deeper support.
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Yes. The child's responses and results are stored securely and are only accessible through your account. We do not share individual data with third parties.
Click on any question below to view the answer.
About the Questionnaire
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Most students complete it in 20 to 40 minutes. There is no time limit, so the child can go at their own pace.
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No. There are no right or wrong answers. PRISM© is not an assessment of ability or performance. It captures how the child thinks and what they gravitate toward, so honest answers give the most accurate result.
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PRISM© is designed for students from Grade 2 through Grade 8. The language of the questionnaire automatically adjusts based on the grade level entered when creating your account.
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Not at all. PRISM© is for anyone who wants to understand how their child learns. You do not need a prior assessment, referral, or diagnosis.
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Yes. If you are an educator or school administrator interested in using PRISM© with students, please reach out to us directly at info@hagtcollaborative.org
About the PRISM© Snapshot
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The child's PRISM© Snapshot is saved to your account automatically once the questionnaire is complete. You will be directed to the dashboard with the results of the child’s PRISM© Snapshot as soon as the questionnaire is complete. Log back in at any time at to view it. There is no download option, so make sure you hold onto your login details.
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The PRISM© Snapshot is an overview covering the child's dominant areas of curiosity, how they approach problems and process information, what drives and motivates them, and the learning environment where they do their best work. It is designed to be a starting point for conversation, with the child, their teacher, or an HAGT specialist.
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Yes, and we encourage it. It can be a useful reference point for parent-teacher conversations, IEP meetings, or any discussion about how to better support your child in the classroom.
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Interests and learning preferences can shift as children grow. If the child takes PRISM© again at a later stage, their new Snapshot will reflect where they are at that point.
About the PRISM© Profile
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The PRISM© Profile is a paid option for those who want to go beyond the free Snapshot. It pairs a comprehensive written report with a 50-minute one-on-one consultation with an HAGT Collaborative specialist.
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The report provides a comprehensive written interpretation of the child's results, context for what each dimension means, and personalized recommendations for home and school. It goes beyond the Snapshot to give you something you can actively use in conversations.
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You will meet with an HAGT Collaborative specialist to walk through the child's results and report together, ask questions, and discuss next steps. Sessions are conducted online and last 50 minutes.
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Please reach out to us at info@hagtcollaborative.org once you’ve completed your PRISM© Snapshot.
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Yes. All consultations are conducted by trained members of the HAGT Collaborative team with expertise in gifted and twice-exceptional learner support.
Have a question that is not answered here?
Let us know and we will typically get back to you within 24 hours, or reach out to us directly at info@hagtcollaborative.org.