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Demystify and De-risk the Measurement of Human Skills.

NeoWise helps organizations uncover, strengthen, and communicate the human skills already present in their programs — without requiring a new platform or a wholesale redesign. Many institutions are already developing skills like critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. The challenge is that these skills are often embedded in existing tasks, standards, coursework, and assessments, but not yet recognized, interpreted, or reported in a way that gives programs full credit for what they are already doing.

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Hiding in Plain Sight.

Organizations increasingly want to show that their learners are developing the human skills that matter in an AI-shaped world. Yet many still lack a rigorous, practical way to identify where those skills already appear in their standards, curriculum, assessments, and reporting systems.

Skill evidence is often hidden in plain sight.

Existing reporting rarely captures the full depth of what programs already measure.

Teams may assume they need new assessments, when the first opportunity is often better interpretation of existing evidence.

A new frontier in assessment innovation

Innovation is often equated with adding new item types, richer interactions, or more layers of design. A complementary frontier is emerging: rethinking how existing evidence is analyzed and interpreted so organizations can unlock greater depth, precision, and value without increasing complexity.

More value from existing systems.

More explicit evidence of human skills.

Less pressure to redesign everything from scratch.

NeoWise is not an assessment.

NeoWise is an expert-first framework, methodology, and advisory partner focused on human skills. The work is designed to work with your existing standards, assessments, curriculum, and data systems — not replace them.

You have the program. NeoWise helps make the human-skill signal visible.

What NeoWise helps organizations do

Identify where human skills already appear in standards, tasks, assessments, and curriculum.

Make implicit skill evidence more explicit, credible, and defensible.

Strengthen assurance-of-learning and readiness claims with clearer evidence.

Build a stronger narrative for accreditors, funders, employers, and leadership.

Future Proof: Develop internal capacity so teams can sustain the work over time.

What NeoWise brings

Human Skills Framework

A research-grounded framework for the skills and mindsets that matter alongside AI, including fine-grained subskills and practical performance descriptions.

Skill Mining Methodology

A proprietary process for extracting human-skill evidence from existing assessments, standards, coursework, and curriculum.

Expert-in-the-loop model

NeoWise is expert-driven and AI-supported, using AI to amplify expert interpretation rather than replace judgment.

Capacity building

The goal is not a one-off audit, but training that creates a sustainable internal capability your team can use as programs evolve.

Certification and signaling potential

A path toward NeoWise-aligned assessment or program certification that helps clients communicate quality and rigor using a common language

How it works

1

Select a program or assessment set

Choose a course sequence, assessment family, credential, or standards-aligned program.

2

Map existing evidence

NeoWise reviews standards, tasks, rubrics, assessments, and related materials to identify where human-skill evidence already exists.

3

Surface strengths and gaps

The work clarifies which skills are already being developed and assessed, where evidence is partial, and where opportunities for optimization exist.

4

Strengthen interpretation and reporting

NeoWise helps define clearer evidence maps, narratives, and pathways for communicating what the program actually shows.

5

Future Proof: Build internal capability

Teams gain language, tools, and insight they can continue using beyond the pilot.

What organizations gain

Recognition for work already happening in the program.

Clearer evidence of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and related competencies.

A lower-risk path to innovation than starting with entirely new assessments.

Stronger external signaling for learners and the institution.

Better alignment between curriculum, assessment, and future-ready skill claims.

Why NeoWise

Why NeoWise

NeoWise is led by Kristin Lansing, whose work spans more than 15 years of innovation in human-skills measurement, learning science, and assessment across organizations including OECD/PISA, ACT, and the United Nations ecosystem. The combination of research depth, practical assessment design experience, and current work on making implicit skills explicit gives NeoWise unusual credibility in this space.

  • Lead designer of the OECD PISA 2021 Creative Thinking assessment at ACT.
  • Developer of ACT's Cross-Cutting Capabilities framework and assessments.
  • Robust research and publishing agenda designed to expand understanding and establish leadership in innovation


A practical first step

Start with a low-risk skill-mining pilot.

A pilot focused on selected standards, assessments, or course materials can produce a NeoWise competency map showing which human skills are currently being developed and assessed, where the evidence is partial, and where opportunities for improvement exist. It works from existing materials, with no new platform purchase and no need to redesign everything first.

High signal.

Low risk.

Bring human skills into focus

NeoWise helps organizations uncover, validate, and elevate the human skills already present in their standards, curriculum, and assessments — turning hidden evidence into clearer insight, stronger claims, and a more future-ready program

Explore a client pilot

See how NeoWise-aligned reporting could work in your ecosystem