The NCCA Is NOT An Accreditor Of Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) Certifications

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National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) should be pushed out of the fitness industry for reasons that may surprise you.

The NCCA being considered an accreditor of Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certifications is baffling. They force the adoption of a pre-designed test creation process and ignore education quality.” - Dr. Brent Brookbush, CEO of Brookbush InstituteNEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, April 13, 2023/einpresswire.com / -- No personal training certification program, fitness professional, or employer of fitness professionals should consider the NCCA accreditation a reasonable benchmark for certification quality; the NCCA doesn't even review certification quality.

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There is a common misconception that the NCCA is a national 3rd party accreditor of Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification programs. They are not. The only thing the NCCA accredits is the use of THEIR pre-constructed test creation process (a process with questionable validity). Despite claiming to be a 3rd party accreditor of certifications, the NCCA does not perform the basic duties that most professionals would expect of an accreditor. Chief among these duties, the NCCA does NOT perform peer-review of a program's content, or the delivery of that content. It is possible, and perhaps the standard in the fitness industry, that the NCCA is accrediting exams that assess the knowledge of content that could not pass a 3rd party peer-review by subject matter experts. Further, the NCCA forces companies to develop exams with a team separate from content developers (educators), practically ensuring that tests exhibit lower validity and/or fail to enhance the educational experience.

Worse, many certification companies accredited by the NCCA are using the misconception that“NCCA accreditation” relates to the quality of content, to imply that other certifications lack validity. This is unfortunate at best and may represent unfair business practices.

“How the NCCA could be considered an accreditor of personal training certifications is baffling. All they do is force a program to adopt a pre-designed and bloated test creation process, and they ignore the quality of the education delivered! The NCCA needs to be pushed out of the fitness industry.”

Recommendations: The NCCA standards do not include peer-review, and the organization was not developed with the intent to ensure a certification promotes professional competence. We recommend that only accreditors and approvers that include these standards are accepted and promoted in the industry (e.g. American Council of Education, NATA-BOC, TPTA, etc.).

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