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After spending 20+ years writing perfomance appraisals in the workplace, it's something with which I'm quite familiar (although I've not seen that specfic term before).
In my experience, the average person believes themself to be 'above average' and expects an appraisal to suit. They're frequently disappointed when they get an 'average' appraisal!
Of course, we don't use words like 'average'. The language refers to suitability, accomplishments, skills attained, productivity, teamwork, etc.
Going (more) off-topic ...
The best system I've ever seen gave each person a numerical rank - 1st, 2nd, etc. - no doubts anywhere, but no pass/fail either - everyone knew where they stood and what they had to do to get where they wanted to go. Of course, as soon as the behavioural psychologists got a hold of it, it was canned and replaced with the wishy washy affirmative c--p that bears no resemblance to a person's career trajetory.
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