Standards and quality · The standard · Element

The agreement test

Evidence that two assessors reach the same verdict against the standard.

The part

What it is

Run on a sample of real output. Disagreement means the standard is not yet written, whatever the document says.

Repeating the test after revising the standard is what turns it from a document into a working instrument.

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.