BOARD of FORENSIC
DOCUMENT EXAMINERS

Accredited by the
Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board

 

The Board of Forensic Document Examiners (BFDE) administers a professional certification program designed to evaluate the knowledge and practical skills of individuals practicing forensic document examination through objective and reliable testing, ethics, professional standards and experience. Board Certification is awarded to individuals for successfully passing written and performance examinations. The program promotes education within the discipline through its five-year certificate renewal program which requires certificate holders to acquire continuing education and contribute to the profession through various activities.

The Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board (FSAB) evaluates certification programs offered by boards that certify individuals practicing a forensic science or other forensic specialty. This board has meet the standards necessary to become accredited.

To ensure fair and unbiased testing procedures, the BFDE has contracted with Occupational Research and Assessment, Inc.(a Michigan based test development company) to administer, proctor, and score the examinations. Test development is a continual process and ORA Inc. continues to work with the test development team to insure the test-question database remains current with relevant questions as new research becomes available and technology changes within the profession.

The BFDE promotes professional competence among its certificate holders and assists in educating judges, attorneys and other persons concerned with forensic document examination and its applications to the judicial process. The board certification program was created not only for those in the profession today, but also for future document examiners to raise and maintain professional competence and standards. The goal of the BFDE is to provide a credential that the legal community can rely upon when inquiring about the services of a consultant/expert in forensic documents.

The testing program is voluntary and open to all forensic document examiners who meet the prerequisties.

The Board of Forensic Document Examiners is incorporated
as a non-profit organization in the State of Texas.

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