Annex A. Glossary
Shorthand | Full name (English name) | Description |
BIFIE | Bundesinstitut für Bildungsforschung, Innovation und Entwicklung des österreichischen Schulwesens (Federal Institute for Educational Research, Innovation and Development of the Austrian School System) | The aim of BIFIE is to plan, implement and evaluate effective quality assurance and development measures. Core tasks include educational monitoring, a national education report, quality development and applied educational research. N.B. The BIFIE has been restructured to form the Institute of the Federal Government for Quality Assurance in the Austrian School System (Institut des Bundes für Qualitätssicherung im österreichischen Schulwesen, ➜ IQS). The change took effect on 1 July 2020. |
BIST BIST-Ü | Bildungsstandards (BIST) (Education standards) Bildungsstandards-Überprüfung (Education standards review) | Until 2018/19, education standards were reviewed within the framework of the BIST-Ü Bildungsstandards-Überprüfung (Education standards review). Education standards will continue to form the basis of the instrument of informal competence assessment (Informelle Kompetenzmessung, ➜IKM), which will be continued and expanded as a national performance measurement. |
BZG | Bilanz- und Zielvereinbarungsgespräche (Performance review and objective-setting discussions) | Development plans at all levels and performance review and objective-setting discussions (Bilanz- und Zielvereinbarungsgespräche, BZG) between the different levels of the school system represented the two central structural elements of the ➜SQA framework. Development plans are accompanied by regular performance review and objective-setting discussions (BZG) between the decision makers at superordinate levels, which are based on the current development plan of the subordinate level. A number of support measures are available for implementation, including training courses, information material (e.g. via the website), external consultants and SQA coordinators at school and provincial level. |
EBIS (SQA) | Entwicklungsberatung in Schulen (School Development Advisory Services) | The wide range of support measures for the implementation of ➜SQA at each individual school also includes the EBIS initiative. The aim of EBIS is to ensure and further develop the quality of external support and advice for schools in their development processes. |
eVOCATION | eVOCATION (n/a) | The eVOCATION institute offers further education and training for individual teachers, for teaching staff or project groups, as well as support for schools in the area of talent, achievement and potential development. It is based on a comprehensive pedagogical concept. |
GruKo | Grundkompetenzen absichern (Securing basic competencies) | GruKo deals with compulsory schools whose students have failed to meet at least 20% of the education standards in the education standards reviews and whose school results are below their expected value. The universities of teacher education prepare special offers for the participating schools. Together with the school management or the teaching staff, multi-professional teams (usually consisting of school developers, subject didacticians and school psychologists) analyse the reasons for the below-average performance at the respective school and provide individually tailored support and advice over several years. |
IKM | Informelle Kompetenzmessung (Informal competence assessment) | With IKM, the ➜BIFIE provides teachers with a tool for evaluating their own teaching in primary, secondary and lower secondary schools, which provides simple, reliable and free information about the learning level of the whole class or group as well as the level of competence of each individual pupil. |
IQS | Institut des Bundes für Qualitätssicherung im österreichischen Schulwesen (Federal Institute for Quality Assurance in the Austrian School System) | The IQS was established on 1 July 2020 to promote the effective and practical use of data and evidence for quality assurance processes in the Austrian school system previously collected by ➜BIFIE. The IQS is a subordinate agency of the BMBWF. The expertise and infrastructure of BIFIE have been transferred. |
LEA | Leadership Academy (n/a) | The Leadership Academy (LEA) network was composed of managers at all levels of the Austrian education system (managers of all school types, school supervision, education administration and pedagogy), who participated in fourteen one-year training courses from 2004 to 2018. |
QPM (QIBB) SQPM LQPM BQPM | (Schul-/ Landes-/ Bundes-) QualitätsProzessManager/in ((School-/ Provincial-/ Federal-) Quality Process Manager) | Quality process managers have distributed responsibility for operational tasks supporting the implementation of ➜QIBB at school, provicial and federal level (school quality process managers SQPM, province quality process managers LQPM, federal quality process managers BQPM) |
QIBB | QualitätsInitiative BerufsBildung (Quality Initiative Vocational Education and Training) | Since 2004, QIBB has been the strategy of the BMBWF for implementing systematic quality management in the Austrian school system for Vocational Education and Training (VET). |
RMM | Rückmeldemoderation (Feedback moderation) | School leaders can request feedback moderators (RMM) via the universities of teacher education. They advise schools on the analysis and interpretation of results of the standard reviews and support them in the fact-based processing of these results. The concrete formulation and implementation is then carried out by school leaders and teachers. The practical support of subsequent school and instructional development processes is not the responsibility of feedback moderators; it is the task of trained school and instructional development consultants (➜EBIS). |
SAND (Tool) | SAND - Schulentwicklung durch Analyse und Nutzung von Daten (School development through analysis and use of data) | In addition to the documents made available, ➜BIFIE offers a support tool for school supervision to accompany the development of schools. SAND (or SanDBIST) enables the data of all school locations in the area of responsibility to be analysed together and compared. |
SCHILF | Schulinterne Fort- und Weiterbildung (school-based professional development) | SCHILF pertains to school-based professional development. Depending on the target group these may be offered for the teaching staff of one school, one region, one province or several or all provinces. |
Schule im Aufbruch | Schule im Aufbruch (School on the move) | Schule im Aufbruch is a platform that calls on all stakeholders within schools to share experiences and examples, and to encourage each other to take the next steps towards better child development in schools. |
SLS | Salzburger Lesescreening (Salzburg reading screening) | SLS allows teachers to check quickly the reading ability of students. It is available free-of-charge to Austrian schools teaching 6 to 14-year-olds and is provided by the Federal Ministry for Education Science and Research under a general public licence. It has been compulsory in the third and fifth grades since the 2004/05 school year. |
Sokrates | Sokrates (n/a) | Sokrates is an administrative software and knowledge management system for schools. It allows management of information around students, teachers and general school administration. Through the software, schools transmit specific data to the Austrian National Statistics Office (Statistik Austria) |
SQA | Schulqualität Allgemeinbildung (School quality General education) | SQA (Schulqualität Allgemeinbildung) is a system for pedagogical quality development and quality assurance in general education. SQA pertains to methods and tools for decision makers at all levels of the school system to improve processes and results. SQA pools resources, provides support and creates structures and binding procedures for quality development. It also comprises elements to build awareness for quality development. |
SRDP/SRP | Standardisierte Reife und Diplom Prüfung (Standardised Graduation and Diploma Examination) | The Standardised Graduation and Diploma Examination (Standardisierte Reife und Diplom Prüfung, SRP/SRDP) is designed to assess student performance objectively, transparently and fairly. It comprises three independent sub-areas to assess students’ competencies at the end of upper secondary education: The pre-scientific thesis at general education upper secondary schools (Allgemeine höhere Schule, AHS) or diploma thesis (Berufbildende höhere Schule, BHS), two or three oral examinations, and three or four written examinations. The performance assessment in the written part is carried out by the subject teacher using standardised correction and assessment instructions. Otherwise, the exercises continue to be prepared by the teachers at the school location. |
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