The record behind the pass mark
A cut score is not a number somebody typed on a program. It is the end of an argument, and when that argument is challenged the body has to produce it. CredHub keeps the argument.
Scaled or pass/fail, declared per program
A program scores either on a scaled score against a passing scaled score, or pass/fail. The two are mutually exclusive at the database level: a scaled program must have a passing score and a pass/fail program must not have one, so a program cannot exist in a state where nobody can say what passing means.
Scaled scores are derived rather than stored as a raw count, and the derivation is the guarantee — a result means the same thing across two forms of different difficulty, which is the entire reason to scale.
It locks the moment somebody registers
A program’s passing score can be changed freely while nobody has registered. Once a single candidate holds a seat, it locks. Moving a cut score reclassifies results that have already been recorded, and a system that allows it quietly is a system whose results cannot be defended.
The way through is not an override. It is adopting a standard-setting study, which changes the number and records why.
Method, panel, rounds, rationale
A study records where the number came from: the method used, the date it was conducted, who facilitated it, who sat on the panel, the definition of a minimally competent candidate the panel rated against, the rounds, the recommended cut and the rationale. It is drafted, then adopted — adoption being the act that makes it the program’s standard.
A body recording a standard it set years before it came to CredHub can adopt a study that documents the cut already in force, without disturbing it. When a study recommends a different cut, adoption goes through the lock above rather than around it. The program then points at the study its cut rests on, and the study adopted before it is marked superseded rather than deleted. Panel names and ratings are your records, visible to your people and to nobody else.
By content area, if you want it
A program can report a candidate’s performance by content area in bands rather than as a bare pass or fail, so a candidate who did not pass learns something about where they stand. It is per-program and off by default, because a domain report on a form with too few items per area is a number that looks informative and is not.
Ask what your program would need
Tell us how many candidates you certify and what you run today. You will get a written quote against the published rates — not a discovery call before a number.