The criteria

What a strong, adequate and weak answer looks like, written before the first interview.

The part

What it is

Criteria written in advance are the difference between assessment and preference. Written afterwards, they describe the candidate who was already favoured.

They also make disagreement productive: two assessors who disagree against a scale are discussing evidence, not taste.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.

Criterion
Describes the observable answer at each level rather than a numeric feel.
Text shared type
Scale
A fixed scale makes scores comparable across candidates and across assessors.
Choice shared type
Weight
Weighting set in advance stops the most recent impression dominating the decision.
Number shared type