Assessment design
FirstProof Perspective
Evidence-Based Assessment Design
Designing from the decision and evidence requirement back to the assessment experience.
Executive summary
Treat assessment as an evidence system rather than a collection of interview questions, exercises or technology features.
Key insights
What decision-makers should retain
Begin with the decision, context and standard the assessment needs to support.
Specify what observable evidence would demonstrate the relevant capability or behaviour.
Design scenarios, prompts and scoring criteria to collect that evidence consistently.
Assessment methodology
From criteria to a readiness signal
FirstProof treats assessment as an evidence system. Each stage exists to make the final judgement more consistent, reviewable and useful.
01
Criteria
Define what matters
02
Scenario
Create relevant context
03
Evidence
Make capability visible
04
Review
Apply governed judgement
05
Readiness Signal
Support the decision
The design question
What evidence would make the intended assessment decision more defensible?
Treat assessment as an evidence system rather than a collection of interview questions, exercises or technology features.
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