Credential
3 child terms
 An official certificate and accompanying documentation attesting to the achievement of a qualification. Source: SAQA 2013, South Africa
| Organisation: | South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)  , South Africa |
| Source: | TVET Standard Glossary of Terms (2013) |
| Description: | 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. Website |
Formal certification issued for successful achievement of a defined set of outcomes, e.g. successful completion of a course in recognition of having achieved particular awareness, knowledge, skills or attitude competencies; successful completion of an apprenticeship or traineeship. (Definition also used by Queensland government) Source: Wahba 2013, Global
| Organisation: | Moustafa Wahba (TVET consultant), Egypt |
| Source: | TVET glossary MW (2013) |
| Description: | The Egyptian TVET expert Moustafa Wahba developed a glossary based on his own experience as a consultant in TVET. Moustafa Wahba (UNEVOC e-Forum) |
Child terms
 Credential evaluationThe process followed by SAQA (South African Qualifications Authority) to verify and compare foreign qualifications with South African qualifications; the process includes authenticating the status of institutions and the qualifications offered by the institutions, investigating the authenticity of qualification documentation and verifying that the qualification was awarded to the individual in question; and comparing foreign qualifications with South African qualifications, considering the structure and outcomes of the foreign qualifications, and locating the foreign qualifications within the NQF. Source: SAQA 2013, South Africa
| Organisation: | South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) , South Africa |
| Source: | TVET Standard Glossary of Terms (2013) |
| Description: | 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. Website |
CredentialismCredentialism can be defined as a general increase in the level of education of workers that is unrelated to these underlying requirements of the jobs in which they are employed. It can arise through workers using educational attainment to compete with each other for better jobs in the knowledge that employers use this as an imperfect signal of ability or lower training costs. Source: NCVER 2012 Australia
| Organisation: | National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Australia |
| Source: | Over-education, under-education and credentialism in the Australian labour market (2012) |
| Description: | Using data from the 2006 Census of Population and Housing and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, Dockery and Miller examine the issue of credentialism by comparing the reference or required level of education for occupations and the actual education level held by an individual. They employ the ‘ORU’ model, where O refers to overeducation (having more years of education than is required for the job); R refers to the reference or required level of education for a particular job; and U refers to undereducation (having fewer years of education relative to the reference level). The credentialism dimension is captured by looking at whether the level of over4education is greater among younger cohorts and the extent to which there is a wage penalty attached to this ‘overeducation'. "About this research" |
Online credentialThe electronic representation of the different types of learning acquired and mastered by an individual (Examples include the Europass CV, test-based credentials, online badges and online certificates.) Source: UNESCO 2015, Global
| |
Go further
|
