What each student does
One sitting, about thirty minutes. The assessment asks 92 questions: 20 about who they are and where they work, and 72 that are scored. Ten of those ask for a story in their own words.
Nothing is timed and nothing is right or wrong. A student who writes two sentences gets a thinner record than one who writes six. The record says which capabilities it could not evidence.
What the student gets back
- A private web page, written in prose, naming the capabilities their work evidences and quoting the sentences that show it.
- Language they can use in an interview or an application, drawn from what they wrote rather than from a template.
- An honest account of what the assessment could not see, so the record is not a reference letter.
Read a finished record. It is a made-up student and needs no sign-in.
The twelve capabilities
CommunicationAnalytical Problem-SolvingAdaptabilityEmotional IntelligenceCollaborationSystems ThinkingAdaptive LeadershipCross-Cultural CompetencyInitiative & DriveRelationship BuildingResource ManagementCommunity Leadership
Each one is rated on evidence in the student’s own answers. A capability the instrument cannot evidence gets no rating, and the record says so rather than guessing.
A person reviews every record
The draft is written by Claude, from the student’s answers and nothing else. A practitioner then reads it against the evidence and can change any rating or any sentence. No record is published or sent before that review.
Every change a reviewer makes is kept, with the reason, so the version a student received can always be reconstructed.
What the programme receives
- A summary of the cohort, with no individual student named.
- Which capabilities the cohort evidenced well, and which the instrument measured poorly. The second is a finding about the assessment, not about the students.
- How many students finished, how many records were reviewed, published, sent and opened. Those are four different numbers and they are reported separately.
The programme does not receive individual records.A student’s answers and their record belong to that student. They are not supplied to the institution, and asking will not change that.
Students’ data
- Answers are used to write that student’s own record.
- Anonymised answers are used in research only where the student has said yes. Consent is asked separately, and a student who says no still gets their record.
- Nothing is sold and nothing is shared outside the agreement with the programme.
What this cannot tell you
- It does not show that students become more employable. There is no evidence for that yet and none is claimed.
- A rating does not predict how somebody performs at work.
- There is no reliability statistic yet. Criteria and independent rating procedures are still being established.
- Some capabilities are measured much better than others by this instrument.
A programme that needs certainty should wait. A programme that wants to help build the evidence is the one to talk to now.
What happens next
Tell me about your programme and I will reply myself. There is no call to book and nothing is committed by asking.