AI Leaders Course

Read this once, before you start. It sets out what is expected of your paper and how your result is decided. Once you start, only the brief sits beside your paper.

The standard

Your paper is read the way a board would read it. Everything your assessor looks for is in the brief, most of it in Diane Verrall's own words. Read her letter the way you would read a real chair's: what she asks for, what she says she will be looking for, and what she will ask if you do not answer it first.

The detailed marking standard stays with the assessors and is not published. That is deliberate. A board does not hand you its marking sheet, and working out what a board needs from a short brief is part of what this assessment tests.

What every paper must do

• Answer the brief: the seven sections, in order, with their headings, and Diane's question about what would have to be true for you to recommend stopping.
• Stay within 1,200 to 2,000 words, leaving out headings and any appendix.
• Label every number as actual, estimated or unknown, and say where it came from.
• Be your own judgement about Calder Rowe, built on the work you did in the seven tasks. You may use AI to help you write it. You are responsible for every word and every number in it, so check all of it.

One thing on its own stops a paper passing: claiming a benefit as measured when your own paper shows it was not. The course has told you why. One inflated number and a board stops believing all of them.

How your result is decided

A named AI New Zealand assessor reads your paper in full and decides. A marking tool prepares notes for them first. It never scores your paper and never decides, and no result is released without a person's sign-off.

Your result is one of three: Passed, Revision requested or Re-sit requested. There are no grades.

• Revision requested means your paper is close. Your assessor tells you what to work on, and you revise it once and send it back. It is not a re-sit, and most people who revise pass.
• Re-sit requested means it needs a fresh start: a new paper to the same brief. You have two free re-sits. Each opens seven days after the result and must be started within thirty days of it.

Your paper is kept for 24 months after your result is decided, then deleted. It is never used to train anything.