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.
| CONCEPT/TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| Verification (in the context of Micro-Credentialing) | The process of ensuring that stakeholders—such as learners and workers, employers, and training providers—can trust the authenticity of issued badges. Source: TESDA Circular No. 077, s. 2024 |
| Vertically Related Qualifications |
those with hierarchical progressions bearing similar qualifications with advancing national certification levels (e.g. Agricultural Crops Production NC I, Agricultural Crops Production NC II, and Agricultural Crops Production NC III).
Source: TESDA Circular No. 061, s. 2022 |
| Video Footage |
refers to all recorded data captured by any CCTV installed at any accredited Assessment Centers.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 084 s. 2020 |
| Virtual Audits |
are paperless, electronic audits that are conducted without face to face interaction between government and industry. All data is exchanged in electronic formats such as MS Word, Excel, PDF Files, and text files.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 071 s. 2020 |
| Visibly Underemployed |
employed persons who worked for less than 40 hours during the reference period and wanted to have additional hours of work
Source: PSA |
| Vocational Guidance |
involves helping individuals learn about opportunities for education, training, and work and facilitating their career planning. It includes vocational orientation and counseling and may be given in schools, training centers, or undertaken in specialized offices or institutions.
Source: NCVER, Australia, VOCEDpIus: Glossary of VET, as cited in TESDA Circular No. 053, s. 2023 |
| Vocational pedagogy | Refers to the specific teaching and learning methods employed in vocational education and training (VET). It is concerned with equipping learners with practical skills and knowledge that are directly applicable to the workplace. Source: https://unevoc.unesco.org/fileadmin/up/vocational_pedagogy_bill_lucas_unesco-unevoc_30april.pdf |
| Vocational/Career Guidance Advocate |
refers to the non-registered guidance counselors/personnel of TESDA who shall be designated to manage the implementation of various vocational/career guidance activities, in the absence of a Registered Guidance Counselor
Source: TESDA Circular No. 053, s. 2023 |
| Vocational/Career Guidance Unit |
a unit in the public and private TVIs that manages the vocational/career guidance services for their learners and TVET graduates/alumni.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 053, s. 2023 |
| Volume of Learning |
a dimension of the complexity of a Qualification. It is used with the level criteria and Qualification type descriptor to determine the depth and breadth of the learning outcomes of a Qualification. The volume of learning identifies the notional duration of all activities required for the achievement of the learning outcomes specified for a particular Qualification type.
Source: AQF Framework, Second Edition 2013, as referenced by TESDA Circular No. 119 s. 2020 |
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