Casper Test Rater

Imagine a world powered by everyone’s full potential, where people are empowered and enabled to grow and thrive. 

At Acuity Insights, this is the future we envision and strive to build.

Our product, Casper, is an online situational judgment test (SJT) used in higher education admissions to evaluate applicants' potential beyond academic metrics like grades by assessing their responses to real-life situations. 

The Casper test identifies soft skills such as empathy, self-awareness, resilience and ethical judgment and creates a more diverse applicant pool. This holistic approach helps admissions teams discover applicants' full potential and likelihood of success in their programs.

Rating a Casper test is a critical part of our work, and we’d like to invite you to join our Rater community as a casual contractor.

As a Rater, you have the chance to help our U.K.-based partners make informed admission decisions and directly influence the academic and career paths of thousands of higher education applicants.  

It is a role that:

• Doesn’t require any prior experience.
• Is flexible and remote, which means you can work at your own pace from anywhere within the U.K. 
• Provides you with the opportunity to supplement your income with socially impactful work, as you are paid per rating you complete.

• Become a certified rater. Complete virtual onboard training to learn how to rate test responses of applicants to academic programs, including how to combat implicit bias.
• Rate and score Casper responses. Read and review applicant text and video responses, compare them to the overall pool of test takers, and assign scores following scoring guidelines.
• On-going training and recertification. Participate in ongoing refresher training and complete our annual Rater recertification.
• Share feedback. Provide feedback to help improve and optimize the Casper test, platforms, and content.

You will get paid for each test response that you rate:

• £0.55 per text response
• £1.10 per video response

When test responses are available to rate, you can earn, on average, between £30 and £ 35 per hour.

We issue payments for work you’ve completed via PayPal once a month.

While there’s no guaranteed minimum work and earnings, you can access a quarterly testing schedule, allowing flexibility to choose when to work and estimate potential earnings.

• Be a U.K. citizen.
• Currently reside in the U.K.
• Have your own desktop/laptop computer to work on. 
• Have no plans to apply to and become a student in a program using Casper in the next 12-18 months. 
• Communicate effectively and proactively in writing, enabling you to raise issues and clearly articulate Casper score choices 
• Demonstrate you have the following soft skills:
• Communication
• Self-awareness 
• Professionalism
• Empathy 

We welcome applicants from all walks of life across the U.K., which means you’ll also be part of a diverse group of Raters!

1. Submit Your Application. Complete the online application form. It includes multiple questions to determine if you meet the basic qualifying criteria to become a Casper Rater. 
2. Take a Mini-Casper and Reading Comprehension Test. If the basic criteria are met, you’ll receive an invitation to take a shortened version of the Casper test. Your responses will be reviewed and rated to determine if you share the four aspects listed in the previous section. You’ll also be required to take a reading comprehension test aimed at evaluating your ability to read and understand written information. Both assessments can take up to 25 minutes to complete.
3. Meet a Member of the Rating Team. Successful candidates will be invited to a 20-minute 1-1 video conversation with a member of our Rating team to verify your information. This is also an opportunity for you to ask any questions you still have about rating and the role.
4. Complete Paid Online Rater Training. Receive an invitation to complete our Rater training. The training modules can take 3-4 hours to complete, and you must complete them within 5 business days. 
5. Become a Certified Rater. You’ve successfully completed the necessary steps to becoming a Casper Test Rater. You’re now certified and can start rating Casper test responses! 

Our most successful Raters have the following in common: 

• Regularly participates in rating responses. 
• Stays up-to-date on training. 
• Exhibit strong communication skills, demonstrated by prompt responsiveness to surveys and feedback requests.
• Approach responses with empathy, understanding that their work has a direct effect on the applicant's academic career. 
• Display a high level of self-awareness, showing recognition of personal biases and actively working to mitigate them. 
• Conduct themselves with a strong degree of professionalism, ensuring a respectful environment at all times.

Casper was invented in 2010 by Acuity Insights co-founders Dr. Kelly Dore and Oncology Professor Harold Reiter to improve the admissions process at McMaster University's School of Medicine in Ontario, Canada. They recognized that traditional entrance exams and cover letters were biased and lacked insight into applicants' social intelligence and professionalism and built the test to assess those skills.

Casper is a situational judgment test applicants take online. It helps admissions teams understand how they might handle real-life situations. 

Applicants are given a story or scenario and must answer questions designed to evaluate their approach to handling the situation. The questions are open-ended and have no right or wrong answers, so applicants can take their answers in any direction they see fit.

Each Casper scenario assesses the test-taker for one or more aspects of social intelligence and professionalism, including collaboration, communication, empathy, equity, ethics, motivation, problem-solving, professionalism, resilience, and self-awareness. 

Today, Acuity Insights collaborates with admissions teams in over 400 programs across Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and other locations. These programs include medical schools, nursing programs, veterinary schools, and teacher’s colleges. We’ve recently added our first MBA programs and engineering schools and are exploring other professional disciplines and designations to support.

Last year, 140,000 applicants took the Casper test. We supported 85 live online tests, each with anywhere from 50 to 3,000 applicants. Our Casper Test Raters evaluated and rated over 2 million responses.

Thanks for considering contributing to Acuity Insights as a Casper Test Rater!

Acuity Insights is a purpose-led company on a mission to create a world served by exceptional professionals. We help schools select, nurture and graduate the most well-rounded students with technical and social skills, ensuring that when they enter the workplace as physicians, teachers, or any other professional, they are equipped to serve our communities with social intelligence and cultural competency.

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