Evaluation Independence | The Rigors

operating policy

Review funding boundaries
Review impartiality and recusal

The assigned qualified assessment owner decides from permitted evidence under the applicable standard. Sales, Academy, staffing, client-demand, and revenue owners cannot score or override that decision. Software may route, validate, calculate, and preserve the record; it does not make the consequential disposition. AI does not decide.

Before live use, the staff tool must:

• expose only the minimum role-scoped evidence needed for an assigned task;

• exclude Academy commercial and learning records from merit views;

• require a conflict declaration before evidence access;

• block a recused reviewer from view, score, export, and comment actions;

• preserve original scores, edits, assignments, overrides, and disposition authority;

• require a second review for defined conflicted, accommodated, corrected, borderline, or integrity-reviewed cases; and

• route an appeal outside the challenged decision-maker's sole control.

The assessment operates only through the tested role, conflict, recusal, audit, correction, and independent-appeal controls described here. A failed control closes the affected decision path until recovery evidence is accepted.

A good-faith concern about influence, payment, retaliation, access, or conflict is routed separately from the merit score and reviewed by an owner without the reported conflict. The concern and disposition remain attributable; applicant and reviewer personal data remain protected.

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The Rigors is modeled on the structure of ISO/IEC 17024, the international standard for bodies that certify persons. IT Modality is not accredited to it and does not claim to be.