Common Assessment Framework
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CAF self-assessment eTool
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Definition: an online management tool, allowing
- members of the self-assessment groups (SAGs) to
introduce evidences of strengths and areas of improvement
(AoI), and their individual scores
- the group administrator to gather the results of the SAG
(scores and evidences), in order to prepare the consensus
meeting
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CAF self-assessment eTool
- the SAG administrator to introduce consensus scores
- the organisation administrator to submit the final scores to
EIPA (voluntary); only then will EIPA have insight in the
scores
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Virtual organisation: Apogee, a big organisation who has decided
to establish 3 self-assessment groups: SAG1, SAG2, SAG3
Levels
- Organisation administrator: responsible for the CAF application
in the organisation & the main contact person for EIPA
 creates SAGs (SAG management)
 submits final CAF scores
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Virtual CAF application
- SAG administrator: person managing a SAG
 manages a SAG and its members (SAG management)
 registers strengths/AoI/scores resulting from the consensus
meeting of the SAG
- Assessor: member of a SAG
 registers his/her individual strengths/AoI/scores
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Level 1: Organisation administrator Apogee
 Login: OrgAdmin
 Password: OrgAdmin
Level 2 Group administrator SAG 1
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Virtual CAF application: access codes
 Login: admin
 Password: admin
Level 3 – Assessors from SAG 1
 Login: demo - Password: demo
 Login: assessor2 - Password: assessor2
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The following entries are offered
 Organisation details: Update here the identification data of
your organisation as a whole (edit function)
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I. CAF Scores; II. Good practices; III. Comments on the use of CAF
 IV. CAF self-assessment eTool
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Level 1: Organisation administrator Apogee
 SAG management: Introduce here the names of the
different SAGs established by your organisation (new entry)
Accounts management:
- Create here the Group Administrators responsible for
each of the SAGs (this person, or yourself, can now create
the persons/assessors being part of his/her SAG)
- View here the list of persons registered as Group
Administrator and/or Assessor (with possibility to
edit/delete)
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The following entries are offered
IV. CAF self-assessment eTool
SAG management: Edit the data of your SAG
Accounts management:
- Create here the persons/assessors being part of your SAG
- View here the list of persons registered as Assessor (with possibility to
edit/delete)
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Level 2: Group administrator
View Results : here you have access to (and you can print)
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the individual scores from the individual assessors (i.e. check who has
made his/her contribution)

an overview of the strengths and areas of improvement reported by the
different assessors

scores for (sub)criteria for the different assessors of the SAG with
indication of min/max score, the median and the mean
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Group admin level: scoring info assessors
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Group admin level: info on strengths-AoI
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Level 3 : Assessor - entry
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Level 3 : Assessor - scoring
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Level 3 : Assessor - view scoring
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Level 3 : Assessor - accounts mgt
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1. Request registration as a user (by Organisation
administrator)
2. Organisation administrator creates SAGs
3. Group administrator creates assessor accounts
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Summary : steps
4. Individual assessors carry out self-assessment individually
5. Group administrator gathers the results, prepares the
consensus meeting
6. Consensus meeting
7. Final results (strengths, areas of improvement, scores)
8. Ready to proceed with the action plan ...
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EIPA CAF resource centre
EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
P.O Box 1229
6201 BE MAASTRICHT
THE NETHERLANDS
4QC – Tampere 27-29 September 2006
Contact details
Tel.
+31 43 3296 317/328
Fax
+31 43 3296 296
E-mail: [email protected]
Consult our EIPA web site:
http://www.eipa.eu
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