// GLOSSARY · AUDIT
An assessment whose every cell is a citation, not an opinion — built from rubric versions, calibration state, evidence, and closure records that survive review.
Audit-Defensible Assessment — An assessment whose every cell is a citation, not an opinion — built from rubric versions, calibration state, evidence, and closure records that survive review.
An assessment is audit-defensible when an external reviewer can trace any score back to: the published rubric version it applied, the calibration state of the evaluator at the time, the observation it was based on, the finding it produced, the action assigned, the evidence of closure, and the outcome.
Most readiness records do not survive this chain. They were never built to. OCTAAR records are built to.
// ALSO KNOWN AS
Defensible assessment, Audit-grade assessment
// DOMAIN
Cross-domain
// RELATED TERMS
Chain of Custody (Assessment)
The unbroken provenance trail from a single observation through scoring, finding, action, evidence, and closure — auditable end to end.
Calibrated Rubric
A scoring rubric whose scale itself has been calibrated — not just the wording — so each score maps to a defined, defensible performance state.
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· OCTAAR Methodology Team
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