TVETipedia Glossary

Audit

An independent, objective assurance activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to assess and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes.

Source:
OECD, Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management, 2002 (republished 2010)
OECD, Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management, 2002 (republished 2010)
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Evaluation is a field where development partners – often with widely differing linguistic backgrounds – work together and need to use a common vocabulary. [...] The selection of terms and their definitions in the attached glossary have been carefully discussed and analysed and have benefited from advice and inputs, notably from DAC [Development asistance committee] Members and the academic evaluation community.

A systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining evidence to determine whether the activities and related outcomes of a TVET Institution comply with the Quality Training Framework Standards. (Similar definition used by governments of Tasmania and Queensland)

Source:
M. Wahba (TVET consultant), Glossary of Terms for TVET, Assessment and Verification, 2013
M. Wahba (TVET consultant), Glossary of Terms for TVET, Assessment and Verification, 2013
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The Egyptian TVET expert Moustafa Wahba developed a glossary based on his own experience as a consultant in TVET.

Process to review the practice against documented procedures. (ISO 19011:2015)
Refers to the systematic, independent process for obtaining audit evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which audit criteria are fulfilled. (TESDA-OP-CO-02 Rev. 00)

Source:
TESDA, TVET glossary of terms (online), (accessed 12/2022)
TESDA, TVET glossary of terms (online), (accessed 12/2022)
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This glossary of terms intends to provide the TESDA key players, partners, and stakeholders an online and updated TVET information, concepts, to bring common understanding and clarification on the use of TESDA terminologies.