Norm-Referenced Assessment: A test or other type of assessment designed to provide a measure of performance that is interpretable in terms of an individual's relative standing in some known group. Criterion-Referenced Assessment: A test or other type of assessment designed to provide a measure of performance that is interpretable in terms of a clearly defined and delimited domain of learning tasks.
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), founded in 1954, the largest and most respected sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world, with more than 20,000 International, National, and Regional Chapter members in 80 countries, who work in a wide range of medical specialties, allied health professions, and scientific disciplines.
Media Room. Licensure, ACSM and the Coalition for the Registration of Exercise ProfessionalsÂ® (CREP) The American College of Sports Medicine is one of seven certifying organizations that make up the Coalition for the Registration of Exercise ProfessionalsÂ®(CREP). The CREP coalition began with a focus on a registry of exercise professionals but, over time, expanded to licensure and occupational regulation- a position that was not consistent with that of ACSM. Although a member of CREP, ACSM has never supported licensure for all exercise professionals.