Does NCCA Accreditation mean ACE-certified Professionals have to re-sit for the ACE Exam?
The issue of accreditation for certification organizations by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) is one that has generated a significant amount of coverage and discussion within the fitness industry press, and among education providers and the fitness professionals that we collectively serve. The concept of “grandfathering” of an organization’s fitness professionals following accreditation has become one of the key issues among those discussions. Because the American Council on Exercise has always utilized an appropriate and NCCA-recognized process to develop and administer its certification examinations, all ACE professionals regardless of when they earned their ACE certification (even if it was earned prior to our NCCA accreditation date of August 2003) are not required to re-sit for certification.
