What is a development reading, and what does it decide?
A development reading comes from practice, a training session, a public demonstration, or an Assessment result reported as Provisional or Insufficient. It shows the decisions a person made. It decides nothing about employment or certification.
Judgment is how well a person decides once AI has given the answer. AIRS-J/1, the Standard for judgment in AI-enabled work, uses one rubric for three uses: development, readiness and assessment for employment. The questions below are about the development use. Each answer gives the section of the Standard it comes from.
What is a development reading?
Section 20.3 defines it: "A reading from practice or a training session shows the person's decisions and how the published rules read them, labelled as a development reading."
Where does a development reading come from?
Section 12.8 names five sources. Practice, a training session, a public demonstration, a Provisional result and an Insufficient result are development readings. Certification is issued at Moderate or High confidence only (Section 10).
What does a development reading decide?
For the development use, Section 2 states what it may decide: "Nothing about a person's employment or certification". Section 12.8 says that development readings "inform development and decide nothing about a person's employment or certification".
Can an employer use a training session reading in a hiring, promotion or appraisal decision?
No. A session gives a development reading; it must not be used in a hiring, promotion or appraisal decision.
The Standard sets a term that every commissioning licence must contain (Section 12.11). In its words, "the organisation uses no development reading in a hiring, promotion or appraisal decision."
What does a development reading show about levels and bands?
A practice or session reading shows no level per dimension and no band. Section 20.3 states that levels per dimension and bands "come only from an Assessment".
A Provisional or Insufficient result comes from an Assessment and carries no band (Section 10.1). An Insufficient result shows how many observations were obtained per dimension, not a level.
Who sees a development reading?
Participants are told before they start who sees their reading (Section 20.3).
Where an employer commissions an Assessment or a session for its own people, development readings reach it for development only. The organisation states in advance which roles receive a reading by name, for example the facilitator and the participant's own line manager (Sections 12.6, 12.11).
In a hiring context, AIR APAC releases no development reading to the employer (Section 12.8).
What does a team view show for development use?
For development use, a team view counts decisions and how the published rules read them, not levels or bands (Section 12.7).
What may an employer use in a hiring, promotion or appraisal decision?
Only an Assessment result at Moderate or High confidence may be used as AIR APAC's reading in a hiring, promotion or appraisal decision (Section 12.8). It is one input, used with at least one method of the organisation's own (Section 12.11).
Does a training session count towards certification?
No. A development reading decides nothing about certification (Section 12.8). Certification needs a separate Assessment on held-back scenarios.
A completion record from a programme states "This is not an AIRS-J/1 credential" and confers nothing toward certification (Section 20.2).
Can a development reading be appealed?
A development reading is not among the decisions a candidate may appeal (Section 18.5). A comment on it is a complaint under Section 18.7, made through the complaints page.
What this does not claim
- That a development reading is a lower score, a level, a band or a smaller form of a certification result.
- That a reading forecasts how a person will perform at work.
- That practice or a training session raises the chance of certifying, or shows that a person is ready to sit an Assessment.
- That any organisation has signed the licence term quoted here. Section 12.11 sets what every commissioning licence must contain.
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