The Rigors · Assessor standard
An assessor must be able to explain the decision, not merely issue it.
The Rigors uses 9 assessors across 6 countries. Each assessor is approved for specific role families, trained on the current standard, calibrated against shared records, and subject to conflict and quality review.
ForExperienced independent professionals
FocusAssessment, readiness, engagement operations, and support
Assessor requirements
Demonstrated role or domain depth relevant to the assigned instrument.
Training on Standard 1.0, evidence rules, critical conditions, accessibility, privacy, and prohibited factors.
Calibration within the accepted decision band before independent assignment.
Conflict disclosure before seeing protected applicant evidence.
Evidence-cited scores, rationale, uncertainty, and limitations.
Respect for accommodation, declared assistance, confidentiality, and review boundaries.
Periodic double-scoring, variance review, feedback, and recalibration.
Assignment and removal
Operations assigns an assessor only inside the approved role scope. Material conflict, repeated unexplained variance, evidence-handling failure, bias, retaliation, or failure to preserve the record triggers recusal, review, suspension, or removal.