WVU FIS 480 FINAL STUDY GUIDE A+ GRADED
Accredited Laboratory
DNA Laboratory that has received form recognition that it meets or exceeds a list of
standards by a nonprofit professional association of persons actively involved in
forensic science that is nationally recognized within the forensic science community in
accordance with the provisions of the Federal DNA Identification Act
Accuracy
Degree of conformity of a measured quantity to its actual (true) value.
Administrative Review
Evaluation of the report and supporting documentation for consistency with laboratory
policies and for editorial correctness
Analyst
employee or contact employee, that has successfully completed the laboratory's training
requirements for casework sample analysis, passed a competency test, and has
entered into a proficiency testing program according to these standards. This individual
conducts and/or directs the analysis of forensic samples, interprets data, and reaches
conclusions.
Analytical documentation
Documentation of procedures, standards, controls' and instruments used; observations
made; results of tests performed; and charts, graphs, photos, and other documentation
generated which are sued to support the analyst's conclusions.
Analytical Procedure
Orderly, step-by-step process designed to ensure operational uniformity and to
minimize analytical drift.
Annual
Once per calendar year
Assessment
On-site systematic, independent, documented process for determining laboratory
competence and for obtaining records, statements of fact or other relevant information
by assessors at the laboratory facilities and other places where test or calibration
services are provided with the objective of determining the extent to which requirements
are fulfilled.
Audit
An inspection used to evaluate, confirm, or verify activity related to quality.
"A Fact finding mission"
Calibration
Set of operations which establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between
values indicated by measuring instrument or measuring system, or values represented
by a material, and the corresponding known values of measurement.
Competency test(s)
Accredited Laboratory
DNA Laboratory that has received form recognition that it meets or exceeds a list of
standards by a nonprofit professional association of persons actively involved in
forensic science that is nationally recognized within the forensic science community in
accordance with the provisions of the Federal DNA Identification Act
Accuracy
Degree of conformity of a measured quantity to its actual (true) value.
Administrative Review
Evaluation of the report and supporting documentation for consistency with laboratory
policies and for editorial correctness
Analyst
employee or contact employee, that has successfully completed the laboratory's training
requirements for casework sample analysis, passed a competency test, and has
entered into a proficiency testing program according to these standards. This individual
conducts and/or directs the analysis of forensic samples, interprets data, and reaches
conclusions.
Analytical documentation
Documentation of procedures, standards, controls' and instruments used; observations
made; results of tests performed; and charts, graphs, photos, and other documentation
generated which are sued to support the analyst's conclusions.
Analytical Procedure
Orderly, step-by-step process designed to ensure operational uniformity and to
minimize analytical drift.
Annual
Once per calendar year
Assessment
On-site systematic, independent, documented process for determining laboratory
competence and for obtaining records, statements of fact or other relevant information
by assessors at the laboratory facilities and other places where test or calibration
services are provided with the objective of determining the extent to which requirements
are fulfilled.
Audit
An inspection used to evaluate, confirm, or verify activity related to quality.
"A Fact finding mission"
Calibration
Set of operations which establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between
values indicated by measuring instrument or measuring system, or values represented
by a material, and the corresponding known values of measurement.
Competency test(s)
