Imagine a world where everyone’s full potential is recognized and nurtured.

That’s what we’re building at Acuity Insights.

We believe higher education admissions should look beyond grades and consider the whole person—their experiences, strengths, and unique qualities.

Our flagship assessment, Casper, helps make this possible. 

It’s an online test that presents real-life scenarios to evaluate important soft skills like empathy, self-awareness, resilience, and ethical judgment. By looking beyond academic performance, Casper helps create more diverse applicant pools and supports admissions teams in selecting students who are best prepared for success.

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

As a Rater, you have the chance to help our Australia-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:

• Is flexible and remote, which means you can work at your own pace from anywhere within Australia.
• Provides you with the opportunity to supplement your income with socially impactful work, as you are paid per rating you complete.

What You’ll Do as a Casper Rater

• 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.
• On-going training and recertification. Participate in ongoing refresher training and complete our annual Rater recertification.
• 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.
• Share feedback. Provide feedback to help improve and optimize the Casper test, platforms, and content.

Payments

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

While there’s no guaranteed minimum work, you can access a quarterly testing schedule, which allows you to choose when to work and estimate potential earnings. Pay may include activities outside of rating, like job training and participating in research studies.

To qualify as a Casper Test Rater, you must:

• Be an Australian citizen.
• Currently reside in Australia.
• 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 Australia, which means you’ll also be part of a diverse group of Raters!

Steps to become a Casper Rater

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. Prior rating experience is not required.
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. This step may 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!

Success as a Casper Test Rater

Our most successful Raters have the following in common:

• Regularly participates in rating responses. 
• Stays up-to-date on annual recertification 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.

About Casper

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 600 higher education programs across Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and beyond. These include medical schools, nursing programs, veterinary schools, teacher’s colleges, and, more recently, MBA programs, law and engineering schools.

Since 2014, 1 million applicants have taken Casper. Last year alone, 150,000 applicants completed the test across 90 live online sessions, with our Raters evaluating over 2 million responses.

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