The State Examination Center (SEC) always focuses its interest and activities on the improvement and adjustment of educational assessment to the international standards, capacity building and learning best practices on designing and organizing the examinations, verification and analysis of the results, and research methodology.
Organization of regular development projects, internal control, and audit are highly significant for the SEC to ensure the institutional development. The SEC always refers to the experience, reports and recommendations of international organizations and foreign partners, in this regard. The institution’s activities have been audited several times by the various international organizations.
Starting from January 2021, the Research Center for Examination and Certification (RCEC) of the Netherlands has conducted the audit of the State Examination Center’s examination procedures – preparation of assessment and measurement materials, conduct of examinations, verification, and analysis of exam results.
The audit was aimed to assess and improve the quality and efficiency of examinations procedures conducted by the State Examination Center in accordance with the standards of the International Organization for Standardization - ISO.
It is noteworthy that the State Examination Center has successfully passed the audit carried out by the RCEC.
As the result of the audit conducted based on ISO 9001 (quality management), ISO 17024 (conformity assessment), ISO 17065 (product certification), and international quality standards for educational assessment, the State Examination Center was awarded with a certificate obtaining the quality mark of the RCEC.
The RCEC is an international audit organization that assesses and secures the quality of tests and examinations. The organization also offers advisory services to the assessment bodies to increase and improve the effectiveness of examinations. The RCEC started in 2008 as a collaboration between Cito and the Department of Research Methodology, Measurement and Data Analysis of the University of Twente.
RCEC's quality mark is independent proof that the examinations conducted by the SEC meet the highest quality standards. Moreover, the State Examination Center is the only organization among the assessment institutions of the post-Soviet countries to receive this quality certificate.
It should be noted that the quality of the examinations conducted by the former State Students Admission Commission was audited by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in August 2006 and the organization's activities were positively evaluated.