Module 01
JRS Review Conditions
The five conditions themselves: reconstructability, basis identification, chronology, decision-process traceability, evidentiary sufficiency. What each one asks and what a failure looks like.
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Reviewer Training and Certificate
Six self-paced modules and a companion desk reference for deciding whether a record can still explain its own conclusion, particularly where AI-assisted drafting has contributed to it. Built for compliance, HR, audit, legal, AI governance and investigative reviewers. Module 1 opens with no sign-up.
Written by Phillip Wikes, former Lead Civil Rights Officer, Maryland Commission on Civil Rights, M.S. Negotiation and Conflict Management. The five review conditions taught here have been applied record by record by 57 international reviewers across three studies, including 36 independent experts across 16 countries who each completed a full 24-record set.
✓ No registration required · Responses kept separate from contact details · Optional LinkedIn Recommendation
Curriculum
Six modules, worked at your own pace
Each module ends in a short applied exercise. Progress saves in your browser, so you can stop and come back. The full set takes most reviewers two to three hours.
Module 02
Common Documentation Conditions
The patterns that recur across real records: conclusions without a stated basis, chronologies that cannot be followed, and characterizations with no visible source.
Module 03
Secondary Review and Escalation
What a second reviewer needs from a file, when a record should be returned to the drafter, and how to write an escalation that survives being read a year later.
Module 04
AI-Assisted Record Review
Reviewing records that a model helped draft. Polished prose can hide missing evidence and untraceable reasoning, and the same five conditions still apply.
Module 05
Investigation Review
Applying the conditions to investigative files: interview records, evidence handling, and whether the finding can be rebuilt from the file alone.
Module 06
Implementation Sequence
Putting pre-finalization review into an existing workflow without adding a stage, and what to report to leadership.
Companion desk reference included
The Rapid Review Card: a one-page reference for applying the five conditions live, during a review, without opening the training. Free, no form.
What it rests on
Detection accuracy
83.9%
16 independent experts against a verified key, read blind. 95% CI 72.7 to 95.1.
Inter-rater reliability
0.739
Gwet's AC1 among experts, 0.624 among trained reviewers. Interim: wide intervals on 10 records.
Cross-vendor agreement
86.7%
Three AI vendors applying the same conditions to the same 15 records, latest nightly run.
Reviewer base
57
International reviewers have graded records for this work, unpaid and in a personal capacity.
Every figure is recomputed from the study database rather than transcribed. The two reported as interim have not met their pre-registered secondary criterion and say so. Full detail on the research and validation page.
The pathway
01Read Module 1. It opens with no sign-up, no email and no account. Decide on the material rather than on a promise.
02Register to unlock the rest. Name and work email only. Progress saves to your browser as you go.
03Work the six modules. Each ends in an applied exercise. Stop and return whenever you like.
04Submit the reviewer evaluation. A short anonymized baseline on how records are reviewed where you work. This is the research contribution, and it is what the certificate records.
05Collect your certificate. Issued in the name and title you confirm, with a LinkedIn entry you can add to your profile in one click.
This is an open educational standard, not a licence or an accreditation. The certificate records that you completed the training and submitted the evaluation. It is issued by this research programme and not by a university, a government body or a professional association.
Start with Module 1
No sign-up for the first module. Registration unlocks the remaining five and the certificate.
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