Self assessment
In order to add a self-assessment to a contribution, you have to be logged in, and you have to have sufficient permissions for the contribution in question, e.g. as the creator of the contribution or as an editor.
If you have created the contribution yourself, it is accessible in the list under 'My contributions'. If you have been added as an editor to a contribution, you will need to look-up the contribution from the list under 'All contributions'.
To add a self assessment, open the contribution by clicking on the black arrow left of the contribution's title, and select 'Start a self-assessment for this contribution', which is found below the box with all the core metadata.
The self-assessment form consists of three boxes. In the upper one, a summary of the contribution's core metadata is given. The box in the middle contains the assessment criteria for this specific type of contribution (see this page for an overview of the different types).
The system has fetched a number of criteria against which you have to assess your contribution. The choice of criteria is dictated by the type of your contribution, according to a schema that has been defined by the DARIAH board. This schema can change over the years, and contribution types may get obsolete. See also below, in section Legacy Types.
But once your assessment is reviewed and completed, the current criteria will be consolidated into the assessment. Later changes in the criteria will have no effect on your contribution.
Every criterion asks for two pieces of information from your part:
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score:
your rating of how well your contribution complies with this criterion.
The values to choose from are dependent on the criterion.
Sometimes there is a value
non-applicable. - evidence: A reason, a document, or any accessible piece of information that proves or indicates the validity of your score assignment.
Your assessment will get a total score computed as the average of all individual scores.
In this computation, all scores with non-applicable will not be counted.
So if there are 14 criteria, and you have twice non-applicable, your total score will be the
average of the 12 remaining scores.
Your first view on the criteria entry forms will a long sequence of red-framed boxes, one for each criterion. They are all in edit mode, so you can fill them out right away.
As soon as you have entered a score and a piece of evidence for a criterion, the red frame will change into green, and they will be shown in a more compact read-only mode.
Your evidence will remain in view, unless you choose to collapse it.
