Certification and Flash Testing on ALISON

This page describes the Certification and Flash Testing services offered by ALISON.

ALISON Certification

ALISON provides courseware and training within a variety of subject areas. A learner who completes a course with an average mark of 80% or more qualifies for an ALISON certificate. This means they can download and print out their certification.

A certificate displays your name, the name of the course you studied, and your score. It states the fact that you have successfully completed the training course.

This testing and certification system is also provided completely free to our learners. The My Account page displays the certificates you have earned.

Please note that this is an actual qualification: it is not simply a certificate of completion. An ALISON Certificate proves to any potential employer that you have successfully completed a training course.

Flash Testing

In the months ahead, ALISON will launch its “ALISON Flash Test” service. Flash testing will allow any organization anywhere to test any ALISON certification holder. Put simply, an ALISON Flash Test is a short quiz of randomly generated course-specific questions that test the knowledge and skill level of the certification holder.

This testing procedure can validate at any time whether an ALISON certificate holder possesses the relevant knowledge claimed or not. If the learner has gained that knowledge and claimed a certificate, they should have no issue with taking an ALISON Flash Test to validate their credentials. After all, the learner could not have become certified without an 80% grade average in their course of study.

If the learner does not achieve the expected standard in the Flash Test, given some consideration to the time that has passed since their studies were completed, then questions can be asked about whether they actually obtained the certification fairly.

The ALISON Flash Test system is possible as a result of the ‘always-on’ nature of the Internet. Flash testing eliminates the need (to an extent) to presuppose knowledge about a subject simply because an individual claims to have studied the material in school, college or in a previous job. After all, what is of interest to an employer is what you will know tomorrow when you start work there – not what you learned twenty years before and may have largely forgotten about in the meantime!

Click here to read a summary of how to get certified on ALISON.