The references

Who was spoken to, about what work, and what they said.

The part

What it is

A reference chosen by the candidate is a reference that will be positive. The useful question is whether the work was comparable.

The most informative question to a reference is what they would do differently, which invites a real answer where a rating does not.

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.

Referee
Who was spoken to.
Entity shared type
Work referenced
What kind of engagement, which determines how much the reference is worth.
Text shared type
What they would change
The question that produces a real answer rather than a rating.
Text shared type