The Board of Forensic Document Examiners (BFDE) was established to administer a professional certification program designed to evaluate the knowledge, practical skills and abilities of forensic document examiners. Board certification is awarded to individuals for successfully passing the written and performance examinations. Certificate holders must adhere to a prescribed Code of Ethics and Code of Professional Responsibility. This is a voluntary testing program is open to any document examiner who meets the prerequisites and has sufficient confidence in their knowledge, skills and abilities to sit for testing. It is the only board certification program for document examiners that proctors all phases to testing.
To ensure fair and unbiased testing, the BFDE has contracted with Occupational Research and Assessment (ORA) to administer, proctor and score the examinations. ORA is a professional test development and test management company. Steven Clark, Ph.D., director of ORA, worked with a team of forensic document examiners to write a national test that met the standards of validity and reliability. Test development is a continual process and ORA continues to work with the test development team so that the test database remains current with relevant questions as new research becomes available and technology changes within the profession. The goal of the BFDE is to provide a credential that the legal community can rely upon when selecting a forensic document examiner. Certification testing is the best practical answer in a profession that does not offer a degree specific to the discipline.
An individual holding BFDE certification may advertise himself or herself Board Certified by the BFDE and as a Diplomate of the Board of Forensic Document Examiners.
The BFDE is a non-profit corporation in the State of Texas. The Executive Board is comprised of officers elected from the ranks of certificate holders, and three directors, including a public representative.
To ensure fair and unbiased testing, the BFDE has contracted with Occupational Research and Assessment (ORA) to administer, proctor and score the examinations. ORA is a professional test development and test management company. Steven Clark, Ph.D., director of ORA, worked with a team of forensic document examiners to write a national test that met the standards of validity and reliability. Test development is a continual process and ORA continues to work with the test development team so that the test database remains current with relevant questions as new research becomes available and technology changes within the profession. The goal of the BFDE is to provide a credential that the legal community can rely upon when selecting a forensic document examiner. Certification testing is the best practical answer in a profession that does not offer a degree specific to the discipline.
An individual holding BFDE certification may advertise himself or herself Board Certified by the BFDE and as a Diplomate of the Board of Forensic Document Examiners.
The BFDE is a non-profit corporation in the State of Texas. The Executive Board is comprised of officers elected from the ranks of certificate holders, and three directors, including a public representative.