What a professional group, a commission, an accrediting agency, oranother scholarly deliberative body establishes as appropriate standards

What a professional group, a commission, an accrediting agency, oranother scholarly deliberative body establishes as appropriate standards. These standards may be expressed as lists of objectives or may be quantitative measures of status for accreditation or approval. The American Medical Association's standards for accreditation of medical schools, the accreditation standards of the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges, or the standards of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education for programs of teacher education are examples of evaluative criteria.