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ISO / IEC 17024 - Accreditation of bodies operating certification of persons |
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Monday, 23 November 2009 18:37 |
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ISO/IEC 17024, provides a uniform set of guidelines for organizations managing the qualifications and certification of persons, including procedures for the development and maintenance of a certification scheme. It is designed to help bodies operating certification of persons conduct well-planned and structured evaluations using objective criteria for competence and grading in order to ensure impartiality of operations and reduce any conflict of interest.
The issues that ISO/IEC 17024 tackles can be simply summarized:
- Defining what it is you are examine (the competencies)
- Knowledge, skills and personal attributes
- Examination must be independent
- Examination must be a valid test of competence
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Accreditation 
