TVETipedia Glossary

Quality assurance

The processes of ensuring that specified standards or requirements for teaching, learning, education administration, assessment and the recording of achievements have been met.

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SAQA (South Africa), TVET Standard Glossary of Terms, 2013
SAQA (South Africa), TVET Standard Glossary of Terms, 2013
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This standard glossary of terms defines and clarifies the core terminology relating to the development and implementation of the South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
As a direct result of the many changes in the education and training landscape between 1995 and 2013, a wide range of terminology and definitions have emerged, often causing confusion and leading to ambiguity in the system. This glossary has been developed to bring consistency to the use of terminology in the broader education and training context, including legislation, policy and everyday usage by the public.

Ways in which evidence for qualification is collected, interpreted and used, it has both a disciplinary and developmental role, attempting to overcome the conventionally recognised difficulty of nurturing and judging performance at the same time.

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SADC, Glossary, 2011
SADC, Glossary, 2011
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(Glossary starting p. 26)
Concept Paper and Implementation Plan for the SADC Regional Qualifications Framework (Original document developed by the SADC Technical Committee on Certification and Accreditation in Maseru in 2005. This is an updated and amended version of the original document).

Quality assurance encompasses any activity that is concerned with assessing and improving the merit or the worth of a development intervention or its compliance with given standards. Note: examples of quality assurance activities include appraisal, RBM, reviews during implementation, evaluations, etc. Quality assurance may also refer to the assessment of the quality of a portfolio and its development effectiveness.

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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.

Processes and procedures for ensuring that qualifications, assessment and programme delivery meet certain standards.

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ILO, An Introductory Guide to National Qualifications Frameworks, 2007
ILO, An Introductory Guide to National Qualifications Frameworks, 2007
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(Glossary starting p. 63)
"There are surprisingly few documents which spell out, in a practical way, what an NQF can achieve realistically, what are the preconditions and potential pitfalls and how it can be developed. NQFs have been much discussed and with much enthusiasm, but it may be questioned whether their technical and institutional complexity are well understood.
This Guide attempts to respond to these concerns, and by doing so, to assist policy makers in making informed judgments as to whether and how they can pursue the development of an NQF in meeting the specific needs of their training systems."

Is defined as a planned and systematic pattern of all actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that the product, its components, packaging, and labeling are acceptable for their intended use. Whereas the term certification is the authoritative act of determining compliance with agreed requirements.

Source: (TESDA Circular No. 090 s. 2018)

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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.