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Assessment of learning outcomes

Baseline assessment

Career management skills

Certification of learning outcomes

Certification of skills

Communication in foreign languages

Communication in the mother tongue

Community language

Comparability of qualifications

Competency development framework

Competency element

Competency model

Competency module

Competency standard

Competency unit

Competency-based assessment

Competency-based completion

Competency-based education

Competency-based education and training

Competency-based qualification

Competency-based training

Computational thinking

Core competencies

Core curriculum

Cross cultural training

Current competency

Curriculum exemplar

Dimensions of competency

Educational attainment

Elements of competency

Embedded literacy and numeracy

Enabling course

Family learning

Foundation skills

Foundational competence

Foundational learning

Foundational skills

Functional literacy

Further education

Further Education and Training

General competencies

General education

Generic competency

Generic hard skills

Generic learning outcomes

Key competences

Key competencies

Key skills / key competences

Knowledge criteria

Knowledge standard

Learning achievement

Learning element

Learning objectives

Learning outcomes

Learning strategy

Learning to learn

Level descriptor

Level of qualification

Livelihood skills

Mathematical literacy

Minimum competency

National occupational standards

National qualification

New qualifications and competencies

Occupational analysis

Occupational profile

Occupational skills profile

Occupational specialisation

Occupational standards

Open and flexible TVET

Outcome indicator

Outcome-based qualification

Performance criteria

Person with special needs

Practical competence

Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition

Qualification descriptor

Recognition of a foreign qualification

Recognition of current competence

Recognition of current competencies

Recognition of learning

Recognition of learning outcomes

Recognition of prior learning

Recognition, Validation and Accreditation

Recognized qualification

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics

Scientific and technical education and training

Short duration course

Short-cycle tertiary education

Skill Gap Analysis

Skill obsolescence

Skill upgrading

Skills analysis

Skills anticipation

Skills development

Skills forecast

Skills utilization

Skills utilization rate

SMART objectives

Social and emotional learning

Standardisation

Support competencies

Technical and vocational skills

Technical and vocational skills development

Technological literacy

Training and development roadmap

Training course planning and design

Training standards

Transferability

Transferability of learning outcomes

Transferable skills

TVET learner`s journey

Unit of competency

Unitarisation/ Unitisation/ Unitization

Vocational competence

Vocational competency

Volume of Learning

World Youth Skills Day

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