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
Facilities Utilization Plan
a plan that includes a list of qualifications and the dates and times at which each shall materialize or be accomplished in a particular rea or shared space
Source: TESDA Circular No. 061, s. 2022
Faculty

refers to the learning facilitators/trainers who will teach the General Education, Theoretical, Technology, and Professional courses


Source: TESDA Circular No. 039, s. 2024
Failure
the termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 59 s. 2017
Failure Report
a document reporting the departure of an item from an acceptable condition.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 59 s. 2017
Fairness
(in terms of assessment) opportunity given to candidates so as not to disadvantage because of their situation
Source: TESDA Circular No. 059, s. 2020
Falsification
(TVET Program Registration context)  refers to the act of deliberately lying about or misrepresenting relevant documents and pieces of evidence in program registration and implementation and making them genuine or true, including the forgery of signatures, making false statements, counterfeiting the seal of the Authority or that of the TVI, or other acts that tend to misrepresent a false statement or document to be genuine
Source: TESDA Circular No. 107, s. 2021
Feedback
a written or verbal report of failures, defects, shortcomings, and other experience which can be used to influence design, performance, and costs.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 59 s. 2017
File Naming Convention
a convention (generally agreed scheme) for naming things. It is a framework for naming your files in a way that describes what they contain and how they relate to other files.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 084 s. 2020
Filing System
any set of information relating to natural or juridical persons to the extent that, although the information is not processed by equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose, the set is structured, either by reference to individuals or by reference to criteria relating to individuals, in such a way that specific information relating to a particular individual is readily accessible.
Source: TESDA Data Privacy Manual version 1.0 s. 2020
Financial Capability
is the combination of attitude, knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy needed to make and exercise money management decisions that best fit the circumstances of one’s life, within an enabling environment that includes, but is not limited to, access to appropriate financial services.
Source: Center for Financial Inclusion


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