Professional Certification

Licensure and Professional Certification Renewal Requirements: 2017 Survey Results.

Reassessing Aggregate Welfare under Professional Licensing and Certification∗

I compare the welfare effects of professional licensing and certification in Shapiro’s (1986) moral hazard model of services. Shapiro (1986) shows that licensing can dominate certification, assuming that certification reveals a provider’s human capital investment exactly. This occurs if certification leads to excessive investment in human capital as a signaling device. I consider an alternative...

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Program

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) was established to develop and administer a voluntary system of advanced professional certification to recognize highly accomplished K–12 teachers. The standards guiding task development were developed by committees of teachers and scholars. To obtain the NBPTS certificate, teachers prepare an extensive portfolio demonstrating their...

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Should computed tomography of the chest be recommended in the medical certification of professional divers?

T oklu et al have raised the question of whether routine high resolution computed tomographic (CT) scanning of the chest should form part of the initial diving medical examination for occupational divers. The authors make this proposition in discussing their series of three divers in which pulmonary abnormalities were discovered on high resolution CT scan after occupational diving incidents. On...