Words for roles: candidate, employer, appeals reviewer, academic reviewer
Who is the candidate, who is the employer, who reviews an appeal and who is the academic reviewer in AIRS-J/1, in the Standard's own wording and in plain words.
Judgment is how well a person decides once AI has given the answer. This page explains the four role words a reader meets most around an Assessment in AIRS-J/1.
Candidate
In the Standard. Section 3 has no entry for the word. The Standard uses it for the person assessed. Section 12.5 lists what "Every candidate receives" (scores, band, confidence and evidence), "whether or not the candidate certifies". "A candidate may present for assessment without prior training." (Section 4.3)
In plain words. A plain reading: the person who takes an Assessment. Section 12.6 names three kinds: employees, applicants, and independent candidates and students.
Not the same as. A participant in a training session, who receives a development reading (Sections 3, 20.3).
Employer
In the Standard. Section 3 has no entry for "employer". Its nearest defined term is "Commissioning organisation". "An organisation that arranges an assessment or session under a licence containing the terms in Section 12.11, and receives results under Section 12.6 or Section 13.4" (Section 3). Section 12.6 calls an employment-grade result "AIR APAC's expert reading of the person's judgment in AI-enabled work, which the employer may rely on as one input". It adds: "It does not make, and does not accept responsibility for, the employer's decision about the person."
In plain words. A plain reading: the organisation that arranges an Assessment for its own people or for applicants, and receives the results. A recruiter or staffing firm acting for it may commission instead (Section 12.6). Also:
- For its own employees, an employer receives each result by name. For applicants, only the people deciding on that role receive the result.
- "The employer is never told whether an access support was used."
- The licence terms in Section 12.11 require that no hiring, promotion or appraisal decision rests on the result alone.
Not the same as. A sponsor, which pays for a person's Assessment "without commissioning it" and "receives no result by name" (Section 3).
Appeals reviewer
In the Standard. Section 17 lists the role. "A review board member, or an authorised assessor under §11.6, not involved in the original decision or delivery, and not employed by or paid through Exeter Labs".
In plain words. A plain reading: the person who reviews an appeal (Section 18.5) and had no part in the original decision or its delivery. The reviewer may be a review board member or an authorised assessor.
Not the same as. The assessor whose observation is appealed (Section 11.6), or the review board acting as a body (Section 4.2).
Academic reviewer
In the Standard. Section 17 lists the role "External academic reviewer". Section 11.7 gives it one task, under check V8. The analysis of a job-performance study "is checked by the external academic reviewer (Section 17) or an independent psychometrician before publication."
In plain words. A plain reading: an academic outside AIR APAC, named in Section 17, who checks the analysis of a job-performance study before it is published. An independent specialist in measurement may do the same check instead. This describes the requirement; it does not say a study has been completed.
Not the same as. The appeals reviewer, a separate role in Section 17.
What this does not claim
- Where a plain reading differs from the Standard, the Standard's own wording governs.
- This page does not say that the academic reviewer approves AIR APAC, the Standard or any result.
- An employment-grade result describes a person's judgment in AI-enabled work at the level certified. The decision about the person is the employer's (Section 12.6).
- Every reading is scored by published rules and traces to what the person did. The validation report is published as the checks in the Standard are met.
AIR APAC publishes the standard for judgment in AI-enabled work, certifies people against it through its official instrument, and stands behind every result.