PISA Vocational Education and Training (VET)

Abbreviations and acronyms

List of abbreviations and acronyms used in the framework document

AI	Artificial Intelligence
ASCOT	Technology-based Assessment of Skills and Competences in VET
BIAC	Business at the OECD
CEDEFOP	European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
CTT	Classic Test Theory
EC	European Commission
EDPC	Education Policy Committee
EG	Expert Group of the PISA-VET
EEG	Extended Expert Group of the PISA-VET
EQF	European Qualifications Framework
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ESCO	European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
ESCS	Economic, social and cultural status
EU	European Union
EU-LFS	European Union Labour Force Survey
EU-SILC	European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions
ICT	Information and communication technology
INES	Indicators of Education Systems (INES) Working Party
ILO	International Labour Organisation
IRT	Item Response Theory
ISCED	International Standard Classification of Education
ISCO	International Standard Classification of Occupations
LSO	Network on Labour Market, Economic and Social Outcomes of Learning
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
O*NET	Occupational Information Network
NESLI	Information on Educational Structures, Policies and Practices
PGB	PISA Governing Board
PIAAC	Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
PISA	Programme for International Student Assessment
SES	Social and Emotional Skills
SSES	Survey on Social and Emotional Skills
STEM	Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
TUAC	Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UOE	UNESCO-OECD-Eurostat (UOE) data collection
VET	Vocational Education and Training
VET-LSA	VET Large Scale Assessment
WP	Working Party on International Vocational Education and Training Assessment