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The Basic Education (Education Standards and Quality Assurance Council) Regulations
2. Interpretation
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
2. Interpretation
In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—"Act" means the Basic Education Act (Cap. 211);"Assessment" means the process of determining the level of performance of—(a)a person in a particular skill or subject area; or(b)an institution in comparison to other institutions,by employing minimal standards and key indicators and includes the estimation of the nature, quality or value of a person or an object;"Council" means the Education Standards and Quality Assurance Council established under section 64 of the Act;"Council Secretary" means the secretary to the Council appointed under regulation 7;"Director-General" has the meaning assigned to it under section 2 of the Act"evaluation" means a process of determining the value or work of a program, course or other initiative, with an ultimate goal of making decisions about adopting, rejecting or reversing an innovation;"monitoring" means to observe a situation for any changes which may occur overtime using a monitoring or measuring device;"standards" means a level of quality or specified level of quality which once established must be maintained or improved on and be attained by persons falling below it;"quality assurance" means the determination of the degree of goodness or worthiness while expressing certainty or success in education standards.