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Assessing Achievement Relative to Opportunity

Tuesday, 09 June 2020

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    ECU's Human Resources Service Centre is reviewing the University’s practices of assessing achievement relative to opportunity.

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ECU’s Human Resources Services Centre (HRSC) is leading a university-wide dialogue on how to ensure equality and diversity is embedded in its employment-related policies and practices.

The principle of achievement relative to opportunity, often referred to as ‘R2O’, is an approach to assessing staff achievement on an individual basis in human resources practices, such as performance appraisal. It ensures an individual’s achievement is seen in the context of the opportunities available to them, and therefore is a more equitable basis of assessment.

ECU has applied the principle of achievement relative to opportunity to academic staff promotion assessment since 2014. However, during the self-assessment period of the Athena SWAN Institutional Bronze accreditation process, ECU identified a need to further develop this concept by reviewing the University’s practices of assessing achievement relative to opportunity. These actions are now documented within the ECU Athena SWAN Bronze Action Plan 2018 – 2022.

Through the discussion paper “Assessing Achievement ‘Relative to Opportunity’”, ECU staff are encouraged to give feedback on how staff performance can be assessed fairly on an individual basis, taking into account personal circumstances such as part time work and parental leave.

Further details can be found on HRSC’s Achievement Relative to Opportunity webpage.

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