AIRS-J/1 · Changelog
Every version, and every reversal.
Version files are additive: v1-0 is never overwritten, and each version keeps its permalink. When reliability, fairness or validity monitoring produces a result that weakens a published claim, the adverse finding and the amended claim are recorded here in the next release cycle, per section 4.8. Suppression of an adverse finding is a governance failure, not a commercial decision.
Version history
Section 19, verbatim.
19.1 Owner. AIR APAC Pte. Ltd. is the issuing body and owns this document. From v1.1 onward the external review board (Section 17) approves every major version before release, under Section 4.2, which also records why the Initial Edition precedes the board.
19.2 Versioning. Compatible refinements (clarifications, errata, added guidance, added annex material) are released as v1.x. Material changes to the competency model, the anchors, the evidence requirements or the decision rules are released as v2.0. Each released version keeps a permanent URL and is never overwritten; the entry below records what changed and why.
19.3 Corrections and feedback. Anyone may submit a correction, an objection to a requirement, or evidence that contradicts a claim made here, through the contact route published at airapac.org/standard. Submissions are logged. A submission that identifies a defect in a normative requirement is put to the review board and the outcome is published with the next version, whether or not the requirement changes. Adverse findings are published under Section 4.8.
19.4 History.
| Version | Date | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | Draft | Initial draft. Nine dimensions proposed. One anchor set written. Not issued. |
| 0.2 | 2026-08-15 | Reconciled with canonical StepSim scenario methodology. Added E1 Decision Rights and Escalation; merged stakeholder alignment and disclosure into E2; folded proportionality into P1. Added stakes profile and coverage requirement (§6). All nine anchor sets written. Level 4 rewritten to remove positional-authority confound. Added non-claims (§2.1), assessment integrity (§9), reliability and standard setting (§11), fairness monitoring (§15), candidate data rights (§14.5–14.7). Corrected Merit/Distinction band ordering. Not issued. |
| 0.3 | 2026-08-15 | External-scrutiny revision. Clarified certified function and managerial scope; removed premature instrument approval; added access-support rules, assessor authorisation, explicit provisional aggregation, critical-review reassessment, confidence precedence, performance-appropriate standard-setting requirements, pilot discriminant gating, expanded fairness analysis, appeals and complaints. Expanded the v1.0 evidence gates. The nine dimensions and anchors are unchanged. Not issued. |
| 1.0 | 2026-08-19 | Initial Edition. Published as the authoritative specification. No change to the competency model, anchors, evidence requirements, decision rules or non-claims: v1.0 is v0.3 text with the publication decision made and the gating vocabulary corrected. The requirements that were written as gates on "v1.0 issue" are gates on opening certification, and are restated as such throughout, including Annex A. Added the status-of-this-edition note, the owner, versioning and corrections provisions (§19.1 to §19.3), and an effective date. |
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Reserved
Adverse findings.
None recorded: no reliability, fairness or validity monitoring has run yet, because the non-certifying pilot has not run. This section exists from day one so that the first adverse finding has an obvious home. Its continued emptiness is a statement about the programme's age, not its results.
Governance and section 4.8 →