Certification

"Certify" redirects here. For other uses, see Certify (disambiguation).
"Certified" redirects here. For other uses, see Certified (disambiguation).
This article is about formal attestation. For questions sent from federal to state courts, see Certification of questions of law.
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Certification is part of testing, inspection and certification and the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements.[1] It is the formal attestation or confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit. Accreditation is a specific organization's process of certification. According to the U.S. National Council on Measurement in Education, a certification test is a credentialing test used to determine whether individuals are knowledgeable enough in a given occupational area to be labeled "competent to practice" in that area.[2]

  1. ^ "Certification". International Organization for Standardization. Archived from the original on Feb 27, 2024.
  2. ^ "Glossary of Important Assessment and Measurement Terms". NCME. Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 8 March 2017.