Glossary

The IIEP Learning Portal glossary contains a selection of terms related to educational planning and management and learning outcomes. Each entry contains a definition and an example of use. The information has been sourced primarily from IIEP training materials, as well as IIEP and UNESCO publications. This is a dynamic tool which is regularly updated. We welcome feedback from users. Comments can be sent to community.learning@iiep.unesco.org

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Ability grouping

Access to education

Adjusted net enrolment ratio

Adult education

Agenda for Sustainable Development

Automatic promotion

Basic education

Basic learning needs

Bilingual education

Capacity-building

Capital expenditure on education

Child-friendly school (CFS)

Citizen-led assessment

Classroom techniques

Classroom-based assessments

Coefficient of efficiency

Community school

Comparative education

Compensatory education

Competency-based teaching

Compulsory education

Core curriculum

Cost effectiveness

Cost-benefit analysis

Current expenditure on education

Decentralization

Demand for education

Double-shift system

Early childhood care and education

Early childhood education

Education cycle

Educational demand

Educational input

Educational macro-planning

Educational Management Information System (EMIS)

Educational micro-planning

Educational output

Educational planning

Educational policy

Educational priority areas

Educational wastage

Entrance age (official)

Entrance age (official).

Escuela satélite

External efficiency

Extracurricular activity

Formal education

Formative assessment

Functional literacy

Gender equality

Gender Parity Index (GPI)

Geographic Information System (GIS)

Global Citizenship Education

Grade repetition

Gross enrolment ratio (GER)

Gross intake ratio (GIR)

High stake assessment

In-service teacher training

Inclusive education

Indicator system

Informal learning

Information and communication technologies (ICT)

Internal efficiency

International achievement study

International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)

Language (or medium) of instruction

Language policy

Large-scale learning assessments

Learning assessment

Learning difficulties

Learning environment

Learning objectives

Learning outcomes

Learning society

Learning strategy

Lifelong learning

Lower secondary education

Mother tongue instruction

Multigrade classroom

Multilingual education

National language

Net attendance rate (NAR)

Net enrolment rate (NER)

Net intake rate (NIR)

Non-formal education

Official language

Out-of-school children

Outdoor education

Performance monitoring

Planning programming budgeting system (PPBS)

Post-compulsory education

Post-secondary education

Post-secondary non-tertiary education

Pre-primary education

Pre-service teacher training

Primary cohort completion rate

Primary education

Private institutions

Private tutoring

Public education

Public examinations

Public expenditure on education

Pupil/class ratio

Pupil/teacher ratio

Quality assurance

Quality of education

Reading readiness

Repetition rate per grade

Right to education

Satellite school

School age population

School attendance

School development plan

School facilities

School inspection

School leaving age

School readiness

School-based management

Secondary education

Social demand approach

Space utilization rate

Special needs education

Strategic planning approach

Summative assessment

Supervision services

Survival rate (by grade)

Teacher attrition rate

Teacher deployment

Teacher management

Teacher transfers

Teacher utilization

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET)

Tertiary education

Transferable skills

Transition rate

Universal primary education (UPE)

Upper secondary education