General Glossary
General Glossary |
ACBC | ||
| Advanced Certificate in Business Computing (Level 6) | ||
APL top | ||
| Assessment of Prior Learning. The process by which a Polytechnic recognises and gives credit for learning acquired in other settings. The student is given an automatic pass (ungraded) in the equivalent course or module. | ||
Accreditation top | ||
| Permission to offer an approved programme, awarded by NZQA. | ||
Assessment top | ||
| Process carried out by the training provider to determine whether a student has gained the required skills as laid down in the validated prescriptions. | ||
CBC top | ||
| Certificate in Business Computing | ||
CEO top | ||
| Chief Executive Officer (of a Polytechnic). | ||
CIC top | ||
| Certificate in Computing (Level 3) | ||
Conceded Pass top | ||
| When a student who has otherwise shown a good overall performance narrowly fails in a subject they may be credited as having passed that subject. | ||
Controlling Authority top | ||
| (of the Training Provider) would be, for example, a Polytechnic Council. | ||
DipBC top | ||
| Diploma in Business Computing. | ||
DipICT top | ||
| Diploma in Information and Communications Technology (Levels 5 & 6) | ||
EFTS top | ||
| Equivalent Full Time Student. The unit of funding for tertiary Institutions. | ||
ICDL top | ||
| International Computer Driving Licence (offered under the auspices of the NZCS) | ||
ICSA top | ||
| International Computer Security Association | ||
ICT top | ||
| Information and Communications Technology | ||
ITP top | ||
| Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics | ||
ITP NZ top | ||
| Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics of New Zealand (ITP NZ - formerly Association of Polytechnics in New Zealand (APNZ). | ||
ITPQ top | ||
| Institute of Technology and Polytechnics Quality (ITPQ - formerly New Zealand Polytechnic Programmes Committee (NZPPC)) | ||
L top | ||
| Level (Equivalent NZQA NQF Levels) | ||
LAC top | ||
| Local (Business Computing) Advisory Committee. Each provider is strongly recommended to have an LAC consisting of a number of people working in the computing industry together with some polytechnic computing staff and management. | ||
Mastery top | ||
| The level of skill at which a student has reached the required standard according to the prescription. May be measured at any stage of a subject (including at the beginning). Once reached, subject is deemed to have been completed. Thus if a student can demonstrate mastery of a subject before or during the course they should not have to sit through the remaining classes for that subject. | ||
Moderation top | ||
| Process, organised and conducted by NACCQ, to check that assessment procedures used by a training provider do in fact measure the degree to which a student has acquired the skill being assessed, and that the level of such assessments is consistent nationwide. | ||
Module top | ||
| A subject area, normally 70 student learning hours and worth 7 credits. | ||
NACCQ top | ||
| National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications. | ||
NACCQ Sector Affiliates top | ||
| Refer Sector Affiliates | ||
NDBC top | ||
| National Diploma in Business Computing. | ||
NQF top | ||
| National Qualifications Framework | ||
NZCS top | ||
| New Zealand Computer Society. | ||
NZPCDL top | ||
| New Zealand Personal Computer Driver's Licence | ||
NZPPC top | ||
| New Zealand Polytechnic’s Programmes Committee | ||
NZQA top | ||
| New Zealand Qualifications Authority | ||
PCDL top | ||
| Refer NZPCDL | ||
Polytechnic top | ||
| Polytechnic, Technical Institute, Institute of Technology, Community College, Community Polytechnic. | ||
Program top | ||
| Computer code. | ||
Programme top | ||
| A group of modules which together lead to a qualification (such as CBC, DipBC or NDBC). | ||
Programme Approval top | ||
| Process of having NZPPC examine a programme proposal in terms of industry relevance and consistent standard (prior to Polytechnics applying to teach the programme). Previously known as "validation". | ||
Programme Controller top | ||
| An academic staff member with appropriate qualifications and experience, who is responsible for the day-to-day running of the programme. | ||
Programme Leader top | ||
| Refer Programme Controller | ||
Programme Manager top | ||
| Refer Programme Controller | ||
Provider top | ||
| Refer sector affiliates | ||
QAB top | ||
| Quality Assurance Body. ITPQ provides qualifications (level 7 and below) under delegated authority from NZQA | ||
Resit top | ||
| A system that allows students, who fail a particular aspect of module assessment, to retake that assessment. | ||
Sector Affiliates top | ||
| Members of NACCQ that currently include Polytechnic, Institutes of Technology and/or Universities (especially Massey at Wellington and AUT that were previously Polytechnics) and that may, in the future, include other tertiary institutes, such as Waananga or Colleges of Education | ||