Understanding Acuity Insights Assessments: Purpose, Scoring, and Use in Admissions
Each Acuity Insights assessment is designed to measure specific personal and professional attributes that help show who you are beyond grades. These assessments give you several chances to highlight your people skills.
For schools and programs, the results provide useful insights that can be used at different stages of the admissions process to support informed decision-making.
How Casper and Duet are evaluated
Casper and Duet are evaluated differently, but together they highlight key aspects of your personal and professional characteristics.
Casper scoring
Human raters score each Casper test.
Each scenario is reviewed by a different rater, which helps reduce bias.
Raters are selected to reflect the population of the country where your program is located.
All raters go through extensive training and screening.
The Acuity Insights team applies strict quality controls to ensure the fairness and accuracy of scores.
Duet scoring
Duet is scored automatically.
It measures how well your rankings of program values match the rankings provided by the programs.
How Programs use Casper and Duet assessments
Programs use the flexibility of Casper and Duet in different ways throughout the admissions process. These assessments help evaluate your personal and professional attributes. Programs may use the results at various stages, for example:
To filter applicants early on
To help decide who gets invited for an interview
To prioritize candidates when making final rankings or offers
This approach helps ensure a more complete evaluation of each applicant.
Quick FAQ:
Quick FAQ:
Q1. How are they scored?
Casper: human raters review each scenario.
Duet: automatically scored based on value alignment.
