This week on the Holistic Success Show, we welcome Mark Cousino, Senior Vice President of Talent and Learning at Kyndryl, one of the largest IT service companies in the world. Dr. Kelly Dore, Acuity Insights co-founder and VP, of Science and Innovation, chats with Mark about the importance of soft skills, also known as durable skills, and how they contribute to future career success.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:33 - What role do non-cognitive skills play in the workplace? 06:46 - The difference between durable and perishable skills 08:56 - How can schools foster durable skills? 13:22 - Durable skills and AI 16:57 - Grading durable skills 22:36 - Continuity of skills growth 25:51 - Takeaways

Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Mark Cousino Senior Vice President, Talent and Learning at Kyndryl

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In this week's episode, Dr. Kelly Dore speaks with Dr. Alyssa Orlando, Director of Graduate Admissions at Clark University, about her dissertation research into diversity and equity in Masters-level admissions. Dr. Orlando discusses the inherent bias behind selection, what can be done to mitigate it, and gives suggestions about how institutions can manage bias in admissions.

Timestamp of our conversation: 08:38 - Bias in admissions 09:14 - What are the challenges to institutions mitigating bias? 15:42 - What affirmations did you find in your research? 19:28 - Where should you start when addressing bias in your process? 25:47 - What were the primary findings of the research? 31:50 - Role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in admissions 40:14 - Takeaways

Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Alyssa Orlando Director, Graduate Admission at Clark University

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In this week's episode, Dr. Kelly Dore speaks with Derek Owens, Assistant Professor and Director of Curriculum for the Anesthesiology Program at Mary Baldwin University, about the importance of identifying grit and resilience in applicants. The program previously relied on GPA and interviews to assess applicants, but now uses Casper, a situational judgment test, to get a more holistic view of the applicants' non-cognitive skills.

Timestamp of our conversation: 03:53 - Why is grit so important? 05:08 - What other durable skills lead to success? 06:50 - Testing for grit before Casper 09:50 - How is Casper helping the admissions process?

Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Derek Owens Assistant Professor of Nurse Anesthesiology, Mary Baldwin University

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This week on the Holistic Success Show, Anju sits down with regular host, Dr. Kelly Dore, to talk about the growing trend toward precision education in medical education. Precision education allows educators, students, and learners to leverage data and technology to make education more personalized and learning more effective. Dr. Dore outlines the benefits to learners and programs, as well as what the future of precision education might look like.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:17- What is precision education? 05:43 - What impact does precision education have on learners? 09:11 - What are the benefits for programs? 12:01 - What are the challenges for programs? 15:50 - How are data and technology used for supporting the delivery of precision education? 19:18 - What is the future of precision education? 21:51 - Takeaways

Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Anju Visen-Singh Vice President, Marketing at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we talk with Colleen Robb, a research scientist for Acuity Insights to discuss exciting new findings from our research team about what a Casper score tells you about an applicant. Casper has been evolving ever since development began over 20 years ago, and this latest study will help inform applicants, advisors, programs and the communities they serve what the Casper data actually adds.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:40 - What is Casper? 02:42 - How does Casper fit in with holistic admissions? 05:09 - From SJT to Casper score 07:04 - Background of the study 09:18 - What did we learn? 11:27 - What does the study reveal about Casper? 13:59 - Where to look next

Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Colleen Robb Research Scientist at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we talk with Beth Legacy-Cole, Senior Consultant | Sales Executive at Acuity Insights, about best practices for curriculum mapping. Beth takes us through the benefits and common hurdles facing programs building their own curriculum map as well as what she calls the curriculum trifecta and how it can help unify the messaging of an institution.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:38 - Why is curriculum mapping so critical? 04:53 - What is the curriculum trifecta? 07:16 - Common curriculum mapping pitfalls 11:13 - Benefits to curriculum mapping 12:11 - Takeaways

Links: The trifecta of effective MedEd curriculum management https://acuityinsights.com/education-program-management/the-trifecta-of-effective-meded-curriculum-management/

Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Beth Legacy-Cole Senior Consultant | Sales Executive at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we talk with Dr. Kristen Goodell, Associate Dean of Admissions at Boston University School of Medicine, about the field of holistic admissions. Dr. Goodell talks about the different approaches to holistic admissions, the drives that are behind this move in education, as well as looking ahead at what's coming around the corner.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:20 - What does holistic admissions look like? 07:02 - What drives the move to holistic admissions? 11:34 - Where to start the holistic journey 14:01 - Barriers to holistic admissions 24:25 - The future of holistic admissions 26:28 - Takeaways

Links: Call to Action for Ethical AI in Education

Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Dr. Kristen Goodell Associate Dean of Admissions at Boston University School of Medicine

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This week we spoke with Tanja Adonizio, Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine to discuss the history and iteration of the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE). The MSPE is one of the most important documents for a learner, as it is both a transcript of their academic performance and a required component for a residency application. Tanja walks us through how far the MSPE has come, how it's changed, and what that change looks like in practice.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:43 - What is an MSPE? 04:28 - How was MSPE created historically? 08:41 - Recent changes to the MSPE process 16:16 - What change looks like in practice 21:17 - Takeaways

Speakers: Dr. Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Tanja Adonizio Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

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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

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In today's episode, we talk to Geoff Coons, Associate Director of the Full-Time MBA Program at Smith School of Business at Queen's University, to discuss the importance of soft or durable skills for business education.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:13 - Why are soft skills so important? 03:32 - What do employers say about soft skills? 05:17 - Importance of soft skills in undergraduate programs 07:28 - How soft skills help learners in program 11:05 - The correlation between soft skills and future success 15:42 - Are soft skills underestimated?

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Geoff Coons Associate Director, Full-Time MBA at Smith School of Business at Queen's University

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Connect with Geoff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-coons/

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