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90 seconds. A complete competency portrait.
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The Solutions
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Selected by California
Chosen To Design The State's Behavioral Health Performance Management System.
The BHSSA award — durable-skill measurement at state scale.
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The Case
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The Proof
Real districts, real data, real results.
What partner districts saw in year one — in their own words.
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From the Founders
We built this because the tools didn't exist.
A note on why two educators chose to build a measurement company.
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The Research Foundation

Where Our Eight Attributes Come From

We didn't invent these definitions. The eight attributes we measure are defined in Definitions of Key Character/Non-Cognitive Terms and Skills for Use in Admission, a 2020 report published by Making Caring Common at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We built a machine learning platform that measures each attribute as that report defines it, grounded in the research the report cites.

Explore The Eight Attributes → Read The Original Report
The Eight Anchor Attributes

The Definitions Come From The Report

Each definition below comes from the MCC report, along with the research behind it. Select any attribute to see its definition, the studies it draws on, and the school outcome it connects to.

Attribute
Definition · MCC Report

Measurable Outcome at School

Our Rubric

How A Skill Becomes A Score

Our rubrics are written by Impacter Pathway and aligned to each attribute as the MCC report defines it. Take Compassion: we score Empathy and Prosocial Motivation as two separate dimensions, each across five developmental levels.

Axis Definition ·
Developmental Level

Key Linguistic Markers

Note on two-dimension rating: Empathy and Prosocial Motivation are evaluated as separate but complementary dimensions. Each score represents a point along a developmental continuum, and should be interpreted alongside qualitative student exemplars.

Crosswalked to CASEL

Mapped To The Frameworks
Districts Already Trust

Every rubric is aligned to the eight attributes in the MCC report and to the CASEL competency taxonomy. Thirteen rubric-aligned scoring pipelines in total: the report's eight plus CASEL's five. Districts working in either framework get crosswalk coverage.

Hover the outer ring for a quad, the inner wheel for a skill

The Crosswalk
Four quads, five competencies
Select a quad on the outer ring, or an anchor skill on the inner wheel, to see the pairing. Nothing is reordered to make the mapping work — the wheel already turns in CASEL order.

CASEL® is a registered trademark of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional
Learning. Crosswalk mappings shown are representative; each attribute maps to combinations
of CASEL competencies.

The Source Document

Read The Original Report

The eight attributes are defined in one report, published by Making Caring Common at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Below it, what Impacter Pathway built on top of it.

The Report

Definitions of Key Character/Non-Cognitive Terms and Skills for Use in Admission

Samantha Wettje, Trisha Ross Anderson, and Richard Weissbourd · Making Caring Common, Summer 2020

Defines the eight attributes (Compassion, Curiosity, Gratitude, Grit, Growth Mindset, Perspective-Taking, Purpose, and Self-Control) with the research behind each one, the outcomes it connects to, and examples of what it looks like.

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What We Built On It

The Report Defines Them.
Our Study Shows They Hold Up.

New · Technical Report 2025-01

Multitrait-Multimethod Validation of
Human Skills Measurement via Authentic Student Voice

The construct validity study behind the scores. Three competencies, each measured by four independent methods across 8,612 students, testing whether a score reflects the competency being measured or how articulately a student speaks. Published in full, including the design, every table, and what the study does not establish.

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Cover of Technical Report 2025-01, the multitrait-multimethod construct validity study
.70
Mean of the eighteen same-competency, different-method correlations
.34
Mean of the thirty-six different-competency correlations
.990
CFI for the retained correlated-trait, correlated-method model
5%
Share of a voice score from the measurement method, against 81% from the competency. Teacher ratings: 27%
Where the Evidence Goes Next

From Definitions To Proof

The framework tells you what to measure. The evidence tells you why it matters and how well the measurement holds up.

The Research
Why These Skills?

What the science says about their predictive power for attendance, graduation, and adult outcomes.

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Research Library
The Source Documents

The MCC report, our machine learning white papers, and our latest model card.

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Impacter Pathway was incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs as an Alumni Launch Lab venture. It is not directly affiliated with, endorsed,
or sponsored by Making Caring Common or the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and has no commercial relationship with either.