HCD.11:1 - Problem Frame

Use this when a person’s document, course grade, helped answer or successful task is about to support a claim about what that person can contribute in later Work. Start by writing the contribution to be judged, the conditions in which it is needed and the decision that will use the judgement. A compatible HCD.1 demand account can supply this frame; an equivalent qualified account is sufficient.

The first useful result is a bounded capability-evidence account: what the person demonstrably did, with which means, against which criteria, and what that supports for the receiving use. The result may instead identify an absent observation or an invalid assessment. This lets a practitioner choose the next useful practice or observation without promoting a good product into an unsupported claim about its maker.

Assess the human contribution within equipped work. If the work requires a current source, calculator, accessibility support or specialist return, competent use of that support may be part of the target. An internally available contribution is a different target and needs its own task.

Do not start an assessment when the real question is still what contribution is needed, what counts as domain-correct work, or whether the person had a workable assignment and access. Obtain that input first. Familiar performance does not answer unfamiliar transfer or retention after delay; those are HCD.12 and HCD.13 questions. Release, credentialing and employment decisions may require stronger evidence and retain their own responsible decision makers.