The Role of Language and Socioeconomic Status in Casper Test Performance

14/02/2024 18 min Episodio 19
The Role of Language and Socioeconomic Status in Casper Test Performance

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Episode Synopsis

In today's episode, we talk to Dr. Alex MacIntosh, Senior Research Manager at Acuity Insights, to discuss a new paper that investigates how differences in applicant socioeconomic status and language affect the results of the Casper situational judgment test (SJT). If you want to learn more about this exciting work and what it means for Casper and higher education admissions, you can read the paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289420 Timestamp of our conversation: 01:20 - What is the Casper test? 02:56 - Study overview  05:07 - How do Casper results compare to standardized tests? 06:07 - Implications of Casper findings on higher education 09:39 - Keeping applicants in context 11:30 - How have the results changed your perspective? 16:04 - Takeaway Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights Dr. Alex MacIntosh Senior Research Manager at Acuity Insights Connect with Kelly: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kelly-dore-7971b258 Connect with Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmacintosh/ Visit our blog for more exciting insights: https://acuityinsights.com/resources/blog/

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