Casper Shows Meaningful Relationships With Admissions Performance

Summary/Highlights

Across both the academic literature and program-specific quality assurance studies, Casper shows meaningful and actionable relationships with selection, admissions performance, and in-program performance.

 

Casper and Admissions

From the literature, studies show significant small-to-moderate associations between Casper and admissions outcomes, including faculty interview1, multiple-mini interview2, and faculty rank list position3. Across quality assurance studies from 19 programs and 56,000 applicants, higher Casper scores relate to higher odds of being selected for an interview/MMI, performing well in the interview/MMI, and ultimately being accepted into the program4-7.

 

Casper and In-Program Performance and Beyond

 

In addition to Casper’s impactful relationships with admissions performance, Casper demonstrates meaningful relationships with in-program performance and capacity for predicting on national licensure exams8 and match rates9. Casper has related to in-program performance on the Professional Identity Essay and a measure of moral reasoning1, of OSCEs & fieldwork evaluations10, and clerkship honors status11. Raw correlations between Casper and these measures range between r=0.10 and r=0.50 depending on the program and measures. Casper scores were also able to predict residents that required formal learning interventions12.

 

Evidence/Resources

Casper and Admissions – Publications

  1. Title: Beyond cognitive measures: Empirical evidence supporting holistic medical school admissions practices and professional identity formation. 
    Author(s) and Year: Yingling et al., 2018. 
    Journal: MedEdPublish
  2. Title: Extending the interview to all medical school candidates - Computer-Based Multiple Sample Evaluation of Noncognitive Skills (CMSENS).
    Author(s) and Year: Dore et al., 2009.
    Journal: Academic Medicine
  3. Title: Pilot evaluation of the Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics Test.
    Author(s) and Year: Shipper et al., 2017. 
    Journal: Journal of Surgical Research

 

 

Want to learn more about case studies on Casper’s relationship with admissions?

  1. Casper Technical Manual

  2. Using Casper in your Admissions Process Guide

  3. Texas A & M College of Medicine uses Casper to support holistic admissions

  4. Augusta University Physician Assistant Program Uses Casper to validate final selections

Casper and In-Program Performance and Beyond – Publications and Conference Presentations 

  1. Title: CASPer, an online pre-interview screen for personal/professional characteristics: prediction of national licensure scores.

Author(s) and Year: Dore et al., 2017.
Journal: Advances in Health Sciences Education

  1. Title: Evaluating the validity evidence of admissions and medical school performance variables on student outcomes at McMaster University.
    Authors and Year: Burgess et al., 2020.
    Conference: Association for Medical Education in Europe

  2. Title: Validity evidence for the use of casper in admissions decisions within an occupational therapy program
    Author(s) and Year: Roberts et al., 2022.
    Conference: American Education Research Association 

  3. Title: Evaluating medical school admissions screening measures to promote diversity while relating to future clerkship performance.
    Author(s) and Year: Woodson et al., 2022.
    Conference: American Education Research Association

  4. Title: Incorporating situational judgment tests into postgraduate medical education admissions: Examining educational and organizational outcomes
    Author(s) and Year: Saxena et al., 2021.
    Journal: Academic Medicine


Want to learn more about case studies on Casper’s relationship with in-program performance and beyond? 

  1. Casper Technical Manual

  2. Using Casper in your Admissions Process Guide

  3. Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine finds that Casper scores correlate with humanistic outcomes 

  4. Tulane University School of Medicine sees correlation between Casper and Clerkship grades

For more complete list of publications

  1. Publications page


Acuity Blogs

  1. What admissions factors are associated with academic and professional success?

 

Acuity Videos

  1. Partnering with Acuity on Research

  2. Predicting students who struggle – using admissions data to identify factors associated with impeded progress in medical school 

  3. Correlation of Casper with humanistic outcomes in an osteopathic medical program