Business Education
Shape the future of business
Assess applicants for their potential to become societal impact leaders of tomorrow
Powerful durable skills for business education
Get insight into skills that matter
Get a view of your applicants social intelligence, and ‘durable’ skills beyond academic achievement.
Assess for ten non-cognitive skills, including collaboration, problem-solving, communication, resilience, and empathy, which are critical for academic and professional success.
Look beyond academic grades
Innovate your admissions process and widen pathways to your programs by incorporating Casper into your admissions.
In the new climate of test-optional admissions, add a metric that measures essential soft skills for a more holistic approach to the program selection process alongside academic grades.
Use proven admissions assessment tools
Backed by nearly twenty years of research, Casper is proven to correlate with positive student outcomes.
Nearly 600 academic programs globally have used our admissions assessments to look at applicants’ personal, professional, and social skills.
Measure durable skills and professionalism with Casper
Create a more holistic and fair admissions process
Attract and retain the best applicants and broaden perspectives in your program by incorporating Acuity’s Casper situational judgment test into your process.
Differentiate your program by going beyond grades, demonstrating what you value in future students.
Predict in-program performance and support student success
Identify and select applicants with high potential to thrive in their programs and support student success to become future societal impact business leaders.
Higher Casper scores are associated with:
- Students receiving better employee evaluations in co-op placements and internships
- Better instances of interview selection, interview performance, and program acceptance
- Decreased incidences of non-professional complaints by up to 50%
Identify motivated and resilient students
Our soft skills assessment allows admissions to effectively identify and select applicants with the highest potential to thrive in their program, and as future business leaders.
Casper
An open-response, situational judgment test that evaluates social intelligence and professionalism.
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In our pilot study…those who had excelled on the Casper assessment generally secured more favorable placements and remained actively engaged alumni, demonstrating not only commitment to their respective programs, but also active involvement in their broader community.
Dan Shaw
MBA Program Director, Dalhousie Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University
Webinars and conferences
WEBINAR | Holistic Admissions: Why Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Management is making the shift
In this webinar, Dan Shaw, Director, Corporate Residency MBA program, and Jenna Downey, Project Manager, at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Management will walk through their decision to re-engineer their admissions process for the upcoming academic year, putting in place leading-edge admissions practices.
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WEBINAR | Durable Skills: What Industry Needs From Learners
In a world with rapidly changing technology, the fear of job elimination increases and humans seek a way to stand out against technology. Durable skills are the interpersonal skills that can make humans indispensable and a key asset to the workforce. Watch this webinar to learn more.
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WEBINAR | Societal Impact Leaders: Competencies for Modern Business Leadership
May 7, 2024 at 2PM ET
Join Nicholas Igneri, Dr. Steven Cady and Dr. Kelly Dore in a live webinar addressing the competencies necessary for future business leaders to drive positive societal change.
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Frequently asked questions
Casper is the most widely used open-response situational judgment test (SJT) in higher education admissions worldwide. Backed by nearly 20 years of research, it assesses social intelligence and professionalism in a standardized way, and is used to identify applicants who are more likely to be successful in their program.
Casper gives an early and unique glimpse into the personal attributes of an applicant, and how they are likely to behave in the future by requiring them to explain what they would do in different real-world scenarios. Because the assessment is in an open-response format applicants are able to provide their rationale when responding. It provides a reliable, valid and, distinct measure of 10 aspects of social intelligence and professionalism reported as a (single) z-score which can be easily incorporated in the admissions process.
Casper helps in reducing bias and in diversifying top-ranked applicants within the admissions process by consistently demonstrating lower demographic differences than other admissions assessments.
Casper measures 10 competencies: collaboration, communication, empathy, equity, ethics, self-awareness, resilience, professionalism, problem solving and motivation. These competencies are important for both academic and professional success in business.
Casper’s early success has come from medical schools and health science disciplines. However, just as you need soft skills for these disciplines, they are equally important for succeeding in business programs, and as a business professional. Additionally, Casper for business schools has been specifically blueprinted for business education with input and insights from business academics and professionals.
All of the research results for Casper’s efficacy can be found here.
In a Casper test, applicants are presented with real world video and word-based scenarios followed by open-ended questions. The test has 2 sections – video response and typed response. An applicant has to answer the questions in the required response format within the allotted time.
Each response of an applicant is rated by a different human rater, all of whom have gone through extensive training. Casper results are provided to programs as a single z-score, while applicants receive their quartile score.
More general FAQs about Casper are available on our applicant-facing website.
Casper is rated by human raters who represent the community that business students will serve when they graduate. We have a growing and diverse pool of raters that number in the hundreds. All our raters are carefully selected and undergo extensive training, including implicit bias.
Admissions processes for business schools are highly time-consuming and labor intensive. With Casper, you get a single ‘z’ score which is easy to incorporate into your admissions process and does not require hours or even minutes of review.
Our research team can work with you to:
- Demonstrate how Casper and other pre-admission factors (e.g. GPA, GMAT) predict for admissions and in-program performance
- Learn which selection criteria to prioritize in order to maximize cohort quality and diversity
- Serve your mission and collaborate on peer-reviewed publications, and conference presentations
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