The NOCA Standards Committee developing the national standard for assessment-based certificate programs held its first conference call on February 8, 2008 and met at NOCA headquarters on February 20, 2008 to further develop the draft standard.  Below please find documents related to the ongoing development of the standard:

Certificate vs. Certification Defining Features Document

Standard Development Policy

NOCA Certificate Standard Draft 2.4

Draft Standard Review Meetings

The NOCA Certificate Standard Main Committee has scheduled a series of 90-minute web conferences to review version 2.4 of the draft standard.  These are open meetings available to anyone interested in the certificate standard development process.  The schedule for the web conferences is as follows:

• Conference 1: Tuesday, July 1st at 3:00 pm ET
• Conference 2: Tuesday, July 8th at 10:00 am ET
• Conference 3: Friday, July 18th at 1:00 pm ET 
• Conference 4: Tuesday, July 29th at 1pm ET
• Conference 5: Wednesday, July 30th at 1pm ET

Should you wish to attend one or more of the above meetings, please complete the RSVP form and return it via fax to (202) 367-2165 or e-mail it to info@noca.org.

NOCA Achieves ANSI Accreditation

NOCA has been developing standards covering credentialing and competency assurance since its inception over 30 years ago.  The NOCA Board reemphasized NOCA’s commitment to develop high quality standards in an open and transparent environment by submitting an application to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to become an accredited developer of American National Standards.  Accreditation was granted in July 2008.  ANSI accreditation provides third-party validation that NOCA’s standards development process ensures openness and due process.  To review the NOCA Standards Policies please click here.