What is Certification

Certifications are attestations of their holders’ ability to perform a set of skills relevant to a professional setting. They are awarded and tracked by certification issuers––typically nonprofit organizations, professional associations, industry or trade organizations, or employers. High-quality certifications are based on a third-party standardized assessment, time-limited, renewable, and can be revoked for incompetence or unethical behavior (Workcred, 2018 AU41: The in-text citation "Workcred, 2018" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).

Certification is the recognition by an official technical service or body that a function, equipment, or system obeys national, European or international regulations. This involves evaluating the system's compliance with the applicable requirements which are generally specified in a “regulatory framework” which includes a set of legislative and regulatory texts as well as certain recognized recommendations. In the area of railway safety, certification is essentially based on the assessment and analysis of accident risks due to insufficient protective equipment in a particular event configuration combined with a given geographic configuration.

An official document attesting to a status or level of achievement. Some tourism establishments, especially hotels, have begun to display certification insignia (especially according to ISO 9000 and ISO 14 000 standards) thus alluding the guaranteed quality. Mentioned type of the ISO standards, so far, refer to management certification to support quality. It should therefore be made clear that undergoing a certification process does not necessarily promise all quality, or the quality expected by the individual customer at a given time. Certification does not intervene in the quality level. This is established by the company itself. It does not even provide for management excellence. Certification is therefore a starting point of a whole process aiming streamlining a company´s operations and subsequently rewarding it with a quality product.

A means by which to identify claimants to the title of expert

The confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit.

A teaching license in an endorsement area, which is completed as initial certification or an additional endorsement.

The confirmation that external professional requirements have been met. WGU teacher education programs offer certification in elementary education, as well as in secondary school mathematics, science, and social studies. The university can also assist business students in obtaining certification as a human resource professional, and information technology students in obtaining a variety of external professional certifications

Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review or assessment.

Is defined as secure data in the form of a signed document that is held on a blockchain. These records can have controlled access through multiple layers of cryptography.

When applied in the context of peer tutoring centers, it is the use of training programs for tutors that set standards and create consistency among tutoring centers across the globe. For tutoring, the College Reading and Learning Association’s International Tutor Training Certification Program is the certification referenced in this chapter. “The paramount purpose of the CRLA’s tutor certification process was to set an internationally accepted standard of skills and trainings for tutors” (Walker, 2016, p. 21).

The issuing of a written document (certificate) by a recognised body attesting to compliance with a given standard.

A process by which a product, process, person or organisation is deemed to meet special requirements.

Proof and/or attestation that an individual has achieved competency in an area of work and/or application of knowledge. Recognition that an individual is “certified” is normally issued by an organization authorized to grant such acknowledgement.

The process or outcome of being certified by a third party as attaining a specific level of performance status or achievement or having the qualifications or met the criteria for acknowledgement of capability to perform at the designated level. Credentials may be used to demonstrate one’s qualification to be certified.

One process that formally validates the knowledge, skills, and competences (and/or know-how, know-what, know-why) acquired by an individual, following a standard assessment procedure.

It is a seal of approval which shows that a product meets a certain eco-label standard.