Exhibit 7. What Contextual Assessment Changes and What It Does Not
Context-derived, situation-specific
Individual capability measures remain
Fit judgment, not ranking
Calibrated to context demands
Demand profiling precedes candidate ID
Risk calibration to context gaps
The rigor of individual capability assessment. The tools, the methods, the validation frameworks-all remain. What the dominant model does well continues to be done well.
The question asked at the start, the criteria derived from the answer, and the judgment made at the end. Context analysis becomes the prior step; fit becomes the organizing principle.
The Scope of Change: This is not a wholesale replacement of current practice. The change is specific and bounded. Rigorous contextual assessment retains the value of individual assessment while adding the prior analytical step that determines what that assessment should evaluate. This is a refinement of the model, not a rejection of it.