Merit combination
The merit program result combines two things: the evaluation score given by students and the points for achievements validated in the cycle (training, publications, shared material).
The evaluation score
The score comes from the questions in which each teacher is evaluated individually. It is the share of favourable evaluations: how many answers fell on favourable points of the scale, over the answers on points with a declared meaning.
The meaning of each point (favourable, neutral, unfavourable or "not applicable") is declared in the survey builder. "Excellent" and "Good" count the same when both are favourable. Example: 6 "Excellent", 2 "Good", 1 "Fair" and 1 "Poor" give a score of 80 (8 favourable out of 10).
What stays out of the score
- Answers on "Not applicable".
- Answers on a point still to classify: a point added to the scale starts that way and only counts once someone declares its meaning.
The composition shows, next to the score, how many evaluations stayed out. If all of them did, the teacher has no score in that survey, never zero.
When the survey scale changes
The score follows the meaning of each point, not its position on the scale. Reordering points changes nothing. A removed point keeps counting, for the answers already given to it, with the meaning it had. When the scale of a question used by the cycle changes after the policy was saved, the cycle screen says so, so the change can be checked before closing.
The two ways to combine
- Weighted — points are converted to the same scale as the score (using the cycle's points target) and each part enters with its weight.
- Sum — score and points are added directly, as in a spreadsheet: 92 for the evaluation plus 30 points gives 122.
The sum exists because it is the calculation many institutions already do; the weighted form keeps points from dominating the score.
No score is not zero
If the policy requires an evaluation and the teacher has none, they are left without a result — at the end of the list, not in last place. A survey without a score leaves the average with its weight, instead of counting as zero.
The anonymity floor applies here to everyone, including administrators: the result has consequences for the teacher.
Closing the cycle
Closing calculates and freezes the result, with its full breakdown. A closed cycle does not reopen: editing a response later does not change the number that decided the award.