Identify Applicant Potential Earlier
Casper is the most widely used open-response situational judgment test (SJT) for higher education admissions and assesses social intelligence and professionalism through realistic scenarios. Admissions teams gain standardized insight earlier in the admissions process to prioritize applicants more effectively.
Supporting Admissions Decisions at Leading Institutions
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Research You Can Trust
Casper is developed and continuously validated by a dedicated team of research scientists and psychometric experts. Backed by more than 20 years of research, ongoing validation studies, and large-scale meta-analyses, Casper provides evidence-based insight that admissions teams can trust.
Advance Admissions Decisions with Greater Confidence
Gain insight beyond academic metrics
Grades and other academic metrics tell only part of the story. Casper helps admissions teams understand applicants’ social intelligence and professionalism, providing structured insight into how they think, reason, and exercise judgment in complex situations.
Support fair, defensible decisions
Casper delivers standardized, comparable assessment data that helps programs evaluate applicants more consistently. Multiple independent raters and evidence-based scoring provide a structured foundation for admissions decisions that teams can confidently explain and support.
Prioritize applicants more efficiently
By providing meaningful insight early in the admissions process, Casper helps programs focus interviews and deeper review on the applicants who warrant additional consideration, making better use of limited time and admissions resources.
What Makes Casper Different
Open-response assessment
Applicants respond to realistic scenarios using typed and video answers, revealing how they think, reason, and communicate in their own words. Unlike multiple-choice assessments, Casper captures authentic responses that provide richer insight into applicants’ judgment and professionalism.
Measures authentic judgment
Casper asks applicants what they would do in realistic situations, not what they think the “correct” answer should be. This approach helps programs understand how applicants exercise judgment and navigate complex interpersonal and professional situations.
Research-backed and standardized
Backed by more than 20 years of research demonstrating predictive validity across higher education programs, Casper provides a standardized approach to assessing social intelligence and professionalism. Programs rely on its evidence-based design to support consistent, informed admissions decisions.
Built for today’s admissions environment
Casper’s standardized delivery and security features help make the assessment more resistant to coaching, gaming, and AI misuse than traditional admissions materials, such as personal statements and reference letters. Admissions teams can trust that scores reflect each applicant’s own reasoning and judgment.
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See Casper in Action
Discover how Casper’s open-response assessment helps admissions teams evaluate social intelligence and professionalism through realistic scenarios. Watch how applicants respond, how the assessment works, and why programs trust it to support informed admissions decisions.
Juliette Kendall
Admissions Tutor
University of Manchester
“Casper brought a level of objectivity and consistency to the process that helped us feel more confident that we were selecting the right candidates for dental hygiene and therapy training.”
Louise Thomas
Admissions Coordinator
Curtin University
“[Casper] has reduced staff workload and volunteer burnout that can occur when you are interviewing a vast number of candidates year on year.”
Lisa Daitch
Admissions Director
Augusta University
“[Casper has] helped us spot outliers that our other tools wouldn’t have done for us. The scores have also added confidence to our assessment of applicants and validated our final sections.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Unlike multiple-choice situational judgment tests, which require test-takers to select the correct response from a list of options, Casper asks applicants to respond to realistic scenarios in their own words using typed and video responses. This open-response format means Casper responses are scored based on how applicants think, reason, and exercise judgement rather than whether they recognize the “correct” answer.
Casper is backed by more than 20 years of research and over 150 internal and external studies evaluating its reliability, validity, fairness, and overall assessment quality. As the most widely used situational judgment test in higher education admissions, Casper is continuously researched and refined to support evidence-based admissions decisions.
Research has shown that Casper demonstrates multiple forms of validity, including content validity, construct validity, and predictive validity. Studies have found meaningful relationships between Casper performance and outcomes such as interview performance, professionalism, and success in educational settings, providing evidence that the assessment measures the qualities it is designed to evaluate.
Casper’s standardized delivery and security features help make the assessment more resistant to coaching, gaming, and AI misuse than traditional admissions materials, such as personal statements and reference letters. This helps preserve assessment integrity and gives admissions teams greater confidence that results reflect each applicant’s own reasoning and judgment.
No. Casper is designed to complement academic metrics, not replace them. Used alongside grades and other admissions criteria, Casper provides standardized insight into applicants’ social intelligence and professionalism, helping programs make more balanced, informed admissions decisions.
Academic metrics measure knowledge and achievement. Casper complements those measures by providing standardized insight into applicants’ social intelligence and professionalism, helping admissions teams evaluate qualities that grades alone cannot capture.
Casper is used by hundreds of higher education programs worldwide, including medical schools, nursing programs, pharmacy, allied health, business, and other selective undergraduate and graduate programs. Institutions use Casper to gain additional insight into applicant potential and support more consistent admissions decisions.
Many programs use Casper early in the admissions process to prioritize applicants before investing additional time and resources in interviews and comprehensive application review. Early, standardized insight helps admissions teams focus interviews on applicants who warrant deeper evaluation while improving workflow efficiency.
When evaluating admissions assessments, institutions should look for tools that are research-backed, standardized, and aligned with their admissions goals. Casper provides consistent insight into applicants’ social intelligence and professionalism through an open-response situational judgment test that complements academic metrics and supports fair, evidence-based admissions decisions.
