KCAE.ASSESS:4.1 - Derive the question from the receiving decision

Name the decision affected by this assessment. For screening, ask whether deeper reading could supply a needed contribution. For substantive use, ask which result the candidate can produce or support, under which conditions and with which available inputs. For a recommendation, add whether that result is still needed and worth the recipient’s burden. Use separate results when these questions can have different answers.

Construct the criterion from the work and the source. Recover the source’s claim or described operation, input requirements, result, scope and exceptions. Obtain domain-specific standards from the responsible source or expert. Compare these with the case facts. If the criterion itself is disputed, return that question to its owner; a general evaluator cannot create the domain’s acceptance standard from confidence.

For open-ended material, allow an explanatory distinction or a useful question to count as a contribution. Do not filter everything through “does this call a tool?” A method for understanding a conflict can be useful even when its immediate result is prose. Conversely, mentioning the same topic does not show which missing result the material supplies.