US medical school applicants are facing a changing landscape where situational judgment tests (SJTs) are becoming a normal part of the admissions process. The AAMC clarified policies about retaking its PREview assessment, including the opportunity to take PREview more than once during an application cycle. Acuity Insights further encouraged schools ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated March 19, 2025 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Medical schools want to select students who are not only academically excellent but are also aligned with their mission and likely to thrive in their unique environments. Duet is a values-alignment assessment from Acuity Insights that ... Read more
Acuity Insights
Updated June 5, 2024 by Acuity Insights
The Health Professional Student Association recently completed its 2023 HPSA/SDN Situational Judgment Test Experience survey. An executive summary is available, and the full report can be separately requested. Here is a summary of the findings. ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated April 17, 2025 by Emil Chuck, PhD
The ascent of Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) in admissions, including Casper and AAMC PREview, has spurred frustration and concern among health professional school applicants and their advisors. In June 2023, the National Association of Advisors ... Read more
Laura Turner
Updated April 17, 2025 by Laura Turner
In Part 1, I introduced you to some of the results from the 2022 SJT Experience Survey, sponsored by the Health Professional Student Association. This anonymous survey captured input from 86 respondents who took a ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated May 23, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
What are students encountering as they take situational judgment tests? This is the first of two articles summarizing the findings from the 2022 Health Professional Student Association (HPSA) Situational Judgment Test Experience survey. The questions ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated December 11, 2022 by Emil Chuck, PhD
What is it? The Casper test has nothing to do with “Casper,” the mattress company, or “Casper the Friendly Ghost” from the children’s cartoons series/movies. Casper is an acronym for Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal ... Read more
Lior Krimus
Updated July 19, 2022 by Lior Krimus
Health professional programs conduct interviews to predict professionalism in applicants. COVID-19 has changed the way interviews are and will be conducted (Saxena et al). Online or virtual interview platforms are proliferating as a way to ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated August 8, 2022 by Emil Chuck, PhD
CASPer is an assessment tool that is rapidly gaining popularity across the world. CASPer is a situational judgment test (SJT) that presents test-takers with a series of realistic, hypothetical scenarios and asks them to type ... Read more
Acuity Insights
Updated June 24, 2022 by Acuity Insights
Before giving you some specific strategies to ace Casper scenarios, it’s important to step back and talk about where this test comes from and what it’s all about. Casper stands for Computer-based Assessment for Sampling ... Read more
Behrouz Moemeni
Updated July 17, 2022 by Behrouz Moemeni
Introduction & Background The CASPer (Computer-based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics) test is a 90-minute online situational judgment test (SJT) created by McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. This computer-based test is taken in a non-proctored ... Read more
Kevyn To
Updated June 26, 2022 by Kevyn To