The Engine
The Science
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60 seconds. A complete competency portrait.
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The Solutions
How We Measure
By Audience
Live Portrait
A community school, fully seen.
SMFCSD's Portrait — multilingual evidence, three schools, full transparency.
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The Case
The Evidence
Who Validates It
From the Field
"The data changed how we see our students."
How SDUSD surfaced hidden potential across 44,000 student voices.
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The Arc
The People
The Principles
From the Founders
We built this because the tools didn't exist.
A note on why two educators left the classroom to build a measurement company.
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NEXT GENERATION ASSESSMENT

Every Voice Carries Measurable Skills

JAYLEN
VIRGINIA · GRADE 11
ERS 85/100
Evidence Richness
SELF-EFFICACY FRAMING
"I keep pushing because I believe in who I'm becoming, one day at a time."
Growth Mindset
TOP 12%
Grit
TOP 19%
Gratitude
TOP 27%
MARISOL
NEW YORK · GRADE 10
ERS 87/100
Evidence Richness
LEARNING PROGRESSION FRAMING
"Every time I wanted to give up I remembered why I started, and I kept going."
Grit
TOP 16%
Growth Mindset
TOP 10%
Purpose
TOP 24%
TYLER
CALIFORNIA · GRADE 10
ERS 90/100
Evidence Richness
COMPASSION & RELATIONAL FRAMING
"Showing up for others taught me how to show up for myself, every single day."
Purpose
TOP 13%
Compassion
TOP 7%
Growth Mindset
TOP 21%
CAMILA
CALIFORNIA · GRADE 12
ERS 93/100
Evidence Richness
FUTURE ORIENTATION
"I want to leave this school knowing I gave everything I had to becoming better."
Grit
TOP 11%
Purpose
TOP 5%
Self-Control
TOP 23%
REY
ARIZONA · GRADE 12
ERS 82/100
Evidence Richness
TEMPORAL SEQUENCING OF EFFORT
"When things get hard, that's when you find out who you actually are."
Grit
TOP 9%
Perspective-Taking
TOP 16%
Self-Control
TOP 31%
IMPACTER PATHWAY· HUMAN-MODEL κ 0.89· WEIGHTED κ 0.87· ADJACENT AGREEMENT 97%· EXACT AGREEMENT 74%· PAIRWISE AGREEMENT 91%· RATER DRIFT < 2%· TEST-RETEST r 0.86· SPLIT-HALF 0.88· INTERNAL CONSISTENCY α ≥ 0.85· INTRA-CLASS CORRELATION 0.87· EAP RELIABILITY 0.90· TLI 0.954· SRMR 0.038· χ²/df 2.14· FACTOR LOADINGS ≥ 0.65· CONVERGENT r 0.74 · DISCRIMINANT r 0.31· HTMT RATIO 0.42· CONSTRUCT VALIDITY r 0.74· CRITERION r 0.61· KNOWN-GROUPS d 0.83· SCALE 200–800 · μ 500 · σ 100· TRAINING n = 38,204· VALIDATION n = 9,551· HOLDOUT n = 4,102· 95% CI ±0.02· POWER 0.94 · α 0.05· EFFECT SIZE d = 0.71· D-STUDY OPTIMAL n_r = 2· RASCH SEPARATION 3.4· INFIT MNSQ 0.97· IMPACTER PATHWAY· HUMAN-MODEL κ 0.89· WEIGHTED κ 0.87· ADJACENT AGREEMENT 97%· EXACT AGREEMENT 74%· PAIRWISE AGREEMENT 91%· RATER DRIFT < 2%· TEST-RETEST r 0.86· SPLIT-HALF 0.88· INTERNAL CONSISTENCY α ≥ 0.85· INTRA-CLASS CORRELATION 0.87· EAP RELIABILITY 0.90· TLI 0.954· SRMR 0.038· χ²/df 2.14· FACTOR LOADINGS ≥ 0.65· CONVERGENT r 0.74 · DISCRIMINANT r 0.31· HTMT RATIO 0.42· CONSTRUCT VALIDITY r 0.74· CRITERION r 0.61· KNOWN-GROUPS d 0.83· SCALE 200–800 · μ 500 · σ 100· TRAINING n = 38,204· VALIDATION n = 9,551· HOLDOUT n = 4,102· 95% CI ±0.02· POWER 0.94 · α 0.05· EFFECT SIZE d = 0.71· D-STUDY OPTIMAL n_r = 2· RASCH SEPARATION 3.4· INFIT MNSQ 0.97·
The Quantification Gap

What Matters
Most Goes Unmeasured.

Durable skills are 2× more predictive of adult outcomes than cognitive metrics. Yet every tool the field has ever built to measure them has been incomplete. Until authentic voice.

Predictive Power for Adult Life Outcomes
Cognitive Metrics Durable Skills
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Student Spotlight · Deep Dive

One Response.
Five Signals.

Two minutes of authentic language, scored across five durable skills. Press play and watch the signals land.

3.4/4
Composite
87/100
ERS Score
Top 12%
Cohort
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Signals
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Julian · Hoover High
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Signals 0 of 8 · 12 phrases scored · click any vertex to jump
5 of 8 durable skills detected 0 detected
Purpose3.8/4L4 · Strong
"My main goal in life is to be successful and make my family proud."
Rubric L4 · Goal Framing & Future OrientationValue Statement + Purpose Verb + Abstract Mission Phrase
Grit3.6/4L4 · Strong
"I even take on tests that I know are too big for me, but I end up doing it anyways."
Rubric L4 · Temporal Sequencing of EffortTask Difficulty Marker + Persistence Verb
Growth Mindset3.4/4L3 · Strong
"Growing up in that environment forces you to become a better version of yourself."
Rubric L3 · Learning Progression FramingEnvironmental Framing + Trajectory Verb
Perspective-Taking2.9/4L3 · Present
"Failure is defined in many different ways — people have their own definitions."
Rubric L3 · Perspective Modeling · Theory of MindAlternative Definition + Other-Attribution
Gratitude2.7/4L3 · Present
"One of my main motivators is definitely my auntie. She drives me to push myself."
Rubric L3 · Reciprocal Recognition · Named AdultNamed Adult + Attribution of Motivation
See rater's notes Every score has a source — rubric-aligned to Harvard's Making Caring Common.
JULIAN SPEAKING

Press unmute and listen to Julian talk about what drives him.

Julian · Grade 11 · Hoover High · SDUSD
Our Measurement Core

Eight Durable Skills.
Identified By Harvard.
Predictive Of Success.

From Harvard's Making Caring Common project. Dr. Richard Weissbourd identified these eight skills as the strongest predictors of success in college, career, and relationships. Every student already carries evidence of them. Click any skill to see its definition.

Curiosity Perspective-Taking Purpose Self-Control Grit Growth Mindset Compassion Gratitude
Definition
Click any skill above to see its definition.
↗ Definitions of Key Character and Non-Cognitive Terms and Skills Harvard
↗ Anchor Attributes — Wheel and Definitions Impacter Pathway
Prompt Science

What You Ask Determines
What You Can Measure.

Open-ended and linguistically calibrated, each prompt is engineered to elicit language patterns that map directly to the Anchor Attributes.

Perspective-Taking

The Origins Of Your Style

Where students trace the influences that shaped them — a direct signal of relational awareness and identity formation.

6 SIGNALS
Growth Mindset

When You Bounced Back

How students narrate failure and recovery — whether they frame setback as a ceiling, or just a step in the process.

5 SIGNALS
Compassion

Someone Who Cares

The people students name when they feel truly seen, and what that language reveals about their capacity to connect.

5 SIGNALS
Grit

Something You're Working On

The effort students own when no one's watching, and the language that tells you they actually mean it.

6 SIGNALS
The Difference

What Surveys Miss.
What Voice Reveals.

A Likert scale compresses a student's entire motivational architecture into a single number. Authentic voice preserves the human signals that make that motivation real and actionable.

✕ Traditional Survey
Rate your feelings 1 to 5.
Q1. I am motivated to succeed in school.
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Q2. I feel connected to people at my school.
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Q3. I have access to support when I need it.
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A score of "3" doesn't tell you why a student is motivated — or whether they're one tough week away from disengaging entirely.
↗ Authentic Voice
Tell us what drives you.
Voice prompt · Belonging Composite · 1 of 6 domains
"Every day I'm trying to expand the barriers of my comfort zone. I push myself because if I don't, I know I'll stay stuck. And staying stuck feels like failing everyone who believed in me."
What the Model Heard
"Every day I'm trying to expand the barriers of my comfort zone."
Reflective Growth · High Signal
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What's Next

What Skills Can We
Measure For You?

Bring us your students, your framework, or your district. We'll build the portrait.

Path 01
Bring Your Portrait
We capture authentic student voice against your Portrait of a Graduate framework — whatever durable skills your community has already defined.
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Path 02
Bring Your Framework
Run your district's existing framework — LCAP, MTSS, behavioral health — through the Crosswalk Engine to see exactly where voice maps to what you already track.
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Provenance · How This Was Measured

Composite Portrait · 3.4/4.0

Model & Method
DeBERTa-v3 + CORAL ordinal regression, rubric-aligned to the IMPACTER 8-attribute framework. Model version v3.1.2. Every metric corresponds to a specific rubric criterion (Level 1–4). Human raters set the standard — the model is calibrated against their inter-annotator agreement.
Training & Validation
Training corpus6.2 billion words
Rubric-scored responses38,204
Holdout set (never seen by model)n = 4,102
Credentialed evaluators, calibrated quarterly47
Agreement with Human Raters
Human–Model κ (kappa)0.89
Human–Human κ (baseline)0.87
Quadratic Weighted Kappa0.918
Exact agreement74%
Adjacent agreement (± 1 level)97%
Reproducibility
Score variance (5 identical runs)0.02
Test–retest reliability r0.86
Internal consistency α≥ 0.85
Framework Crosswalk
Validated against the CDE Portrait framework, CASEL 5 competencies, and Harvard's Making Caring Common research attributes. Framework-agnostic scoring — ingest any competency set, deliver consistent rubric-aligned data.
Rater's Notes · Julian · Grade 11 · Hoover High
Response · 2:03 · scored 07/03/2026 · click any circle to play from that mark
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solid response
Notes reviewed against IMPACTER 8-attribute rubric v3.1.2. Scoring agrees with model output within ± 1 level on all 5 attributes. — RM