HCD.5:0.1 - Working Terms
| Name in this pattern | What it denotes |
|---|---|
| development target | The smallest supported change in the person’s contribution that the proposed development should address under the named conditions. A score, trait label, activity, or programme topic is not the target by itself. |
| starting attempt | A condition-qualified observation of the person’s relevant action before the selected development. Record the task, help received, work product, result, and important errors rather than only a score. |
| conditional design hypothesis | A proposed Method choice for a future learner whose entry evidence would meet stated conditions. It identifies the required evidence without asserting that any person already meets those conditions. |
| capability-development Method | A repeatable way of arranging human action, task, information, feedback, support, and correction to pursue a named development target. Its description guides action; it does not establish that the Method was enacted or effective. |
| proposed mechanism | The reason the Method is expected to change the target, stated as a testable local claim rather than a technique label. Causal effect remains unestablished until compatible evidence supports it. |
| observed target change | A difference in the selected target between observations under stated conditions. It can inform the next development decision before its cause is established. |
| target engagement | A change in the selected target attributable to an intervention. Evidence must concern that target and justify the attribution; a theory label or assigned activity does neither. |
| Method set | One Method or a small combination whose members make distinct necessary contributions to the same bounded target or task. A catalogue of plausible techniques is not a selected set. |
| surviving alternative | A serious alternative that remains compatible with the current evidence and would change the development action or evidence plan. |
| non-training return | A return naming the external constraint, owner, blocked HCD decision, safe interim boundary, and retry condition when a human-development Method is not yet the supported next move. |
The target, selected Method, Method description, provider, enacted development Work, observed target change, and later capability claim remain different objects. HCD.5 selects the Method and records the description and conditions needed by the next design use; later evidence determines what was enacted and what changed.