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"Twelve of Canada's 17 medical schools rely on the #CasperTest as part of the initial admissions process, many putting a lot of weight on an applicant's score — up to 30 per cent in some cases"
+ other programs @ other kinds of schools in Canada do too
#AcuityInsights #UniversityAdmissions
Applicants are never told their #Caspertest score
#AcuityInsights only sends that information to the schools
"Instead, test takers are told which of 4 tiers they fall into, from highest to lowest relative to other people taking the test at the same time"
Gee, wonder how many #AcuityInsight raters sped through rating Canadian universities' #CasperTest for a bigger pay cheque?
How many applicants from Canada & elsewhere were rejected from schools they applied to solely because #CasperTest was used to screen them out?
#HopeTheySue
#AcuityInsights promised raters could earn $30 to $50 an hour rating school applicants' #CasperTest
The company also said its raters "have differing levels of qualification" which ensures "they represent the patient population students will serve when they become physicians." 🙄 #Pfft #SusAF
Who is rating school applicants' #CasperTest ?
An online job posting for raters posted by #AcuityInsights did not list any academic/professional requirements & noted "applicants from all walks of life" were welcome and raters would get paid 65¢/per written answer assessed & $1/per video response
#AcuityInsights has also successfully marketed #CasperTest to other programs across #Canada — from #Nursing, #Dentistry and #PhysicalTherapy to undergraduate programs such as the #UniversityOfAlberta 's #BachelorOfEducation program and the #UniversityOfWesternOntario 's #Engineering school
THIS shit is what 12 of Canada's 17 medical schools are relying on when they use the #CasperTest by #AcuityInsights as part of their initial admissions process, many putting a lot of weight on an applicant's score — up to 30 per cent in some cases
#WTF #TryRelyingOnActualScienceInstead
#AcuityInsights later sent more research, but some studies were duplicates they'd already sent, several were research papers — not peer-reviewed studies — and one was a student's doctoral thesis
#CasperTest
-most of the studies were small enough to be scientifically questionable & hadn't been replicated
- & several of the studies are potentially "conflicted" because they were authored by co-founders of the company that is now Acuity or researchers that work for them
#AcuityInsights #CasperTest
Of the 8 studies cited by #AcuityInsights :
-1 doesn't examine their actual #CasperTest
-1 is an overview of existing research and does not provide any new data
-2 were conference papers, so did not undergo peer review process
-several did not address long-term outcomes
and...
Canadian universities increasingly relying on admissions test which experts say lacks evidence
Expert established researchers with experience in medical school admissions called the research behind the test weak and insufficient to back the company's claims
#CasperTest #AcuityInsights
