Purpose and boundary
Trade associations, educators, researchers and publishers can use this playbook to contribute material literacy and practical evidence methods. Contributions should help readers understand a specific decision while keeping publication rights, review independence, organisational relationships and qualification claims distinct.
Required starting information
Trade associations educators researchers and publishers should begin by establishing author and organisation identity with actual contribution authority and original learning purpose and intended audience. Share original educational work and source discovery with explicit authority, permissions and honest evidence states. Use the remaining inputs below to define who may make, record and review the graphic decisions.
- Author and organisation identity with actual contribution authority
- Original learning purpose and intended audience
- Primary source links, versions and reuse permissions
- Relevant expertise and disclosed relationships
- Accessible explanations and properly scoped practice tasks
- Correction, moderation and permitted publication responsibilities
Working method
Define whether the contribution is discovery, explanation, a worked exercise, research or formal assurance. State relevant competence and interests; a contributor profile does not establish partnership or authority over other organisations.
Write an original explanation around the actual decision question. Link to primary sources and preserve their subject and qualifications without mirroring protected full-text publications or copying a scheme’s authority.
For research or comparisons, identify methods, units, boundaries, input states and uncertainty. Keep exploratory scenarios distinct from independently reviewed results and actual achieved outcomes.
Build accessible exercises with explicit fictional data or properly permitted real cases. State what the learner will produce, how to check it and where specialist review is needed; informal completion is not an accredited qualification.
Maintain a correction trail when a source or interpretation changes. Review public wording and dependent learning materials, record actual published updates, and respect specific name, quote, image and participant permissions.
Evidence and handover
The handover for trade associations educators researchers and publishers should answer: What authority and expertise support this contribution? Which source version supports the bounded explanation? Keep the relevant source versions and named decisions with those answers so the next team can distinguish a proposed action from a recorded outcome.
- What authority and expertise support this contribution?
- Which source version supports the bounded explanation?
- Are examples fictional or supported permitted real records?
- Which dependent publications need a correction?
Scope and limitations
A source citation is not permission to reproduce an entire publication.
Funding or sponsorship cannot purchase a favourable evidence state.
Research, teaching, membership and qualification claims require their actual defined authority and evidence.
Method
- Define whether the contribution is discovery, explanation, a worked exercise, research or formal assurance. State relevant competence and interests; a contributor profile does not establish partnership or authority over other organisations.
- Write an original explanation around the actual decision question. Link to primary sources and preserve their subject and qualifications without mirroring protected full-text publications or copying a scheme’s authority.
- For research or comparisons, identify methods, units, boundaries, input states and uncertainty. Keep exploratory scenarios distinct from independently reviewed results and actual achieved outcomes.
- Build accessible exercises with explicit fictional data or properly permitted real cases. State what the learner will produce, how to check it and where specialist review is needed; informal completion is not an accredited qualification.
- Maintain a correction trail when a source or interpretation changes. Review public wording and dependent learning materials, record actual published updates, and respect specific name, quote, image and participant permissions.
