ANSI Certificate Program Accreditation Services

Many American workers engage in training to obtain certificates that they hope are representative of their skills and will be utilized by current and prospective employers to gauge their competency in various skill categories. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has a program that is a benchmark for accrediting such training and education certificates.

ANSI Certificate Accreditation Services

The ANSI Program is intended to:

• provide certificate program developers and certificate issuers guidelines for quality program development and administration;

• form the foundation for a recognition or accreditation system or both that enable consumers, employers, government agencies, and others who rely upon a skilled workforce to distinguish between qualified workers and those with fraudulent or less-than-quality credentials;

• assist stakeholders in differentiating between certificate programs from personnel certification; and

• help stakeholders to differentiate certificate programs from other programs that confer certificates, including but not limited to certificates of attendance or certificates of participation.

List of ANSI Accredited Certificate Programs and their Organizations

Read the FDA Case Study in Program Certification Offered at the upcoming ASTD 2012 Conference in Denver, CO