Longitudinal Assessments

Show progress over time with repeat assessments

Show how people, teams, groups, and organizations change and develop between assessment rounds.

Brilliant Assessments gives you the tools to compare results over time, personalize follow-up reports based on change, and give our assessment audiences clear evidence of development.

WHY BRILLIANT

Why experts choose Brilliant for repeat assessments

Brilliant Assessments is perfect for programs where progress matters and the output needs to reflect the quality of your framework.

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Show change clearly

Compare current and previous results across scores, categories, themes, levels, or key measures.

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Make feedback personal

Adapt the feedback for follow-up reports based on the latest result, earlier results, and the movement between them.

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Track progress at every level

Measure change across individuals, teams, cohorts, departments, client groups, or whole organizations.

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Bring your brand

Create polished assessments and reports that reflect your branding from start to finish, and allow partners to bring their own brand to your assessment.

Reassessments in action

Running reassessments globally for a science sustainability program

My Green Lab uses Brilliant Assessments to support its sustainability certification program for laboratories around the world.

My Green Lab's program is not a one-time audit. Labs complete detailed assessments, receive cohort feedback reports, and return for certification and recertification over time.

Find out how Brilliant Assessments helps My Green Lab manage complex scoring, cohort tracking, detailed feedback, and repeat assessment rounds across hundreds of laboratories. For organizations running repeat assessment programs, this story is a strong example of how Brilliant can support progress tracking, action-focused reporting, and scale without losing the detail behind the model.

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COMPARATIVE REPORTING

Show what has changed, and what it means

When someone completes an assessment again, they want to know whether they've made progress and where they should focus next. Brilliant Assessments connects each round with earlier results, helping you turn those changes into meaningful feedback and reporting.

Compare results automatically

Link reassessments to previous results and calculate differences without building complex formulas or manually comparing data.

See progress from every angle

Show how scores, categories and themes have changed over time, with comparative charts and benchmarks for individuals, groups and 360 multi-rater assessments.

Make feedback reflect the progress made

Tailor feedback, recommendations and next steps based on what's improved, stayed the same or declined, bringing everything together in your branded reports.

Build your repeat assessment

Build it yourself, or let us set it up for you

Whether you're adding follow-up rounds to an existing assessment or creating a new program, you can build around your own scoring model, comparison requirements and reporting framework.

Choose how to build your repeat assessment
Done for you

Your repeat assessment, built by our team

Share your assessment, scoring framework and reporting requirements with us. We'll take care of the setup, including how results are compared and how progress is reflected in your reports.

  • Start with what you already have

    Bring your existing questions, spreadsheets, scoring model or reports. You don't need to build anything in Brilliant Assessments first.

  • Get comparisons set up properly

    We'll configure how assessment rounds connect, what results are compared, and how those differences appear in charts and reports.

  • Make follow-up feedback relevant

    We'll help build reporting that responds to improvement, unchanged results or declining scores, with recommendations that reflect progress.

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Do it yourself

Create and manage your own repeat assessments

Use the Brilliant Assessments builder to shape your questions, scoring and reporting, then decide how follow-up results should be compared and what feedback people receive as their scores change.

  • Apply your own framework

    Use your questions, categories, scoring rules and measures to track the outcomes that matter to your assessment program.

  • Make reports respond to change

    Bring previous and current results into your charts and configure feedback based on the differences between assessment rounds.

  • Build and refine at your own pace

    Preview, test and update your assessment as your program develops, with support resources and AI Build to help draft content.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

FAQs for Repeat Assessments

What is a repeat assessment?

A repeat assessment lets someone complete an assessment again so results can be compared over time. It helps show what has changed since the first assessment, rather than treating every result as a standalone score.

Can people retake the same assessment?

Yes. Brilliant Assessments can support repeat assessments for individuals, groups, cohorts, and organizations, depending on how your assessment program is set up.

Can reports compare previous and current results?

Yes. Reports can compare earlier and latest results, so people can see progress, consistency, or areas where scores have dropped.

Can reports show what changed between assessment rounds?

Yes. Brilliant Assessments can show differences between results, including changes across scores, categories, themes, roles, benchmarks, or other measures in your framework.

Can feedback change based on someone's progress?

Yes. Follow-up reports can be tailored based on the latest result, earlier results, and the change between them. This means feedback, charts, recommendations, and next steps can reflect the person's actual progress.

Can we track progress for groups or cohorts?

Yes. Brilliant Assessments can report on multiple responses together, so you can show progress across teams, departments, cohorts, client groups, or wider organizations.

Can repeat assessments work with our own scoring model?

Yes. Brilliant Assessments supports detailed scoring, calculations, categories, ratings, thresholds, and recommendations, so your repeat assessment can follow your own framework.

Can the reports be branded?

Yes. Assessment pages, emails, portals, and reports can be branded with your logos, colors, fonts, and domains, so the experience feels like yours or your client's.

Can repeat assessments reduce manual reporting?

Yes. Brilliant Assessments can bring comparison, reporting, charts, and branded delivery into the assessment process, reducing the need to manually compare results in spreadsheets each round.