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BioSoteria announced today that Michelle Flewell, the company’s Vice President of eLearning and Informatics, was appointed by the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) to serve on the Certificate Accreditation Program Advisory Council. Flewell will be attending the first meeting of the Council, which is charged with developing policies and procedures for ICE accreditation of assessment-based certificate programs, on March 4, 2010, in Washington, DC.
(PRWEB) March 3, 2010 -- BioSoteria, Inc., a drug safety services and education firm, announced today that Michelle Nolin Flewell, CPLP, the company’s Vice President of eLearning and Informatics, was appointed by the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) to serve on the Certificate Accreditation Program Advisory Council. The Council was recently formed to develop policies and procedures for ICE accreditation of assessment-based certificate programs.
An assessment-based certificate program (ABCP) is a non-degree-granting instructional training program that evaluates the participant’s accomplishment of intended learning outcomes and awards a certificate only to those who meet the proficiency standard of the assessment. It differs from a certificate of attendance, which indicates only that the participant was present at the training program, and a professional certification, which is a time-limited recognition that an individual has met standardized requirements in skills, knowledge or competencies.
ICE, formerly known as the National Organization for Competency Assurance (NOCA), published the first standard for certificate programs in July 2009. ICE 1100 – Standards for Assessment-Based Certificate Programs – specifies essential requirements for c
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