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 |
|---|---|
| Value-Chain Analysis |
is a process where a firm identifies its primary and support activities that add value to its final product and then analyze these activities to reduce costs or increase differentiation.
Source: Strategic Management Insight (SMI) |
| Verification |
refers to the process of validating reported training implementation as required by Training Regulation and implementation of training programs.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 105 s. 2019 |
| 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 |
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