Zula’s Afterschool Discovery Program™ provides inquiry-based science, math, and language arts activities designed to promote the development of critical thinking skills. For assessment, program leaders are encouraged to use authentic methods for assessing student learning that focus on concept understanding. Zula has also created more traditional types of assessments to aid leaders in evaluating their children's knowledge of a subject and how that knowledge progresses over time. The assessment tools also help leaders determine which concepts may need to have more focus with the students. By providing this information, afterschool program leaders can help students by reinforcing and repeating explorations and experimentations to help them gain confidence and familiarity with specific topics and underlying concepts.