AI in Credentialing: Can You Prove It’s Still Trustworthy?
Here’s a scenario more credentialing bodies are one AI rollout away from facing. Two exam cycles into using AI to draft items and score results, a mid-sized credentialing body gets…
Here’s a scenario more credentialing bodies are one AI rollout away from facing. Two exam cycles into using AI to draft items and score results, a mid-sized credentialing body gets…
A member joins in January, opens the welcome email, maybe shows up to one event. By June, they have stopped opening the newsletter. By September, they haven’t logged into the portal in months. Nobody flagged…
A credentialing team of four is expected to do what a team of eight did three years ago: more items written, more renewals processed, more member questions answered, on the…
Across government agencies, professional associations, and credentialing bodies, the conversation about data has followed the same script for a decade: collect more, store better, report cleaner. Organizations have invested in…
The US now has 1.85 million unique credentials in circulation. That number, published in Credential Engine’s Counting Credentials 2025 report, gets cited as evidence of progress: more pathways, more access, more ways…
Every year, the assessment and credentialing industry gathers at the ATP Innovations in Testing Conference and talks about the future. This year in New Orleans, something felt different. The conversation…
For decades, assessments have been treated as static checkpoints, a way to measure what someone knows at a fixed moment in time. That model isn’t just outdated, it’s becoming increasingly…
For more than a decade, digital growth rewarded speed. Organizations that moved fastest, launching new portals, platforms, and capabilities were seen as the most advanced. In 2026 that logic has inverted. The institutions that expanded the…