Credentialing Bodies
Credentialing Bodies (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Certifications of Study lesson that introduces its participants to educational credentials and related topics.
This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Education session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.
Contents
Content
The predecessor lectio is Educational Institutions.
Key terms
- Academic credential. An educational credential that is issued by an educational institution or credentialing bodies to certify specific academic achievements traditionally related to someone's knowledge.
- High school diploma. An academic credential that certifies that someone has been graduated from a high school.
- GED (General Equivalency Diploma). A credential that certifies that someone has successfully passed the test that covers United States or Canadian high school-level academic skills.
Script
- Although educational institutions are most visible, but way not only credentialing bodies.
- For instance, there are several ways to credential for high school-level academic skills in the United States.
- First, students can get graduated from a high school and receive a high school diploma.
- Second, they can pass the special tests and receive GED (General Educational Development) or similar credentials.
- Some educational institutions award professional degrees that usually meet both academic requirements for licensure or accreditation and professional experience in the credentialed profession.
- There are two more opposite trends that are worthy to be mentioned.
- On one hand, credentialism or academic inflation refers to the tendency of the devaluation of educational qualifications because of the needs of educational institutions to increase revenues and cut expenses, on one side, and increasing demands, on the other side. This process further provokes credential creep.
- On another hand, a few occupations don't require academic achievements. All in all, the probability that you will ever meet any recruiter who has earned the degree in Recruitment is obsolete.
Workforce Developers is the successor lectio.
