GLOSSARY

Apprenticeship In employment but released for study at TAFE. Four year agreement (three years if successful in pre-vocational course). Generally in traditional trade areas such as carpenters, mechanics, and the like.

Assumed Knowledge Background knowledge in a SACE Stage 1 or Stage 2 subject or an identified skill, that a student is expected to have grasped. This knowledge enhances the understanding of the content of a given tertiary course.

Embedded Subject A SACE subject that contains a learning module from a VET certificate or diploma.

Pre-Vocational

Prerequisite

SACE Run by TAFE. Usually for 6 months - one year. Equivalent to first year of an Apprenticeship.

A SACE Stage 2 subject that a student must complete to be eligible for selection in the university course for which the prerequisite is nominated. At Endeavour it means a required standard that must be achieved in a subject before a student is allowed to continue that subject at a more advanced level.

South Australian Certificate of Education.

SATAC

Scaling

Semester Unit South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre. SATAC receives and processes applications from persons seeking admission to the courses listed in the SATAC guide. This includes most courses of all South Australian Tertiary Institutions and other provides as well as some interstate Tertiary Institutions.

The mathematical process which provides a basis for comparing performance in different SACE Stage 2 subjects which have different objectives, content and assessment processes. The ‘raw scores’ are scaled to ensure they are comparable before they are added together to produce university aggregates.

A period of half a school year. 50 - 60 hours of programmed learning in a subject. Usually this takes the form of a half-year period of study, but it may also be a full year course with less time per week. Semester units usually are allocated 10 SACE credits.

SACE Board

ATAR

Traineeship

VET South Australian Certificate of Education Board. This is the controlling body of assessment procedures for SACE. At the end of Stage 2 a Record of Achievement is issued which will contain a transcript of all results achieved including the Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranking (ATAR).

Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranking. The results of all Stage 2 subjects are scaled and the aggregate is converted to an Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranking (ATAR) reported on a percentile scale (0 – 99.9). Cut off ATAR scores are determined depending on the student quota for each tertiary course.

Government subsidised employment for one year with release time for study. Traineeships are now being offered in an ever increasing variety of areas, such as office work, computing, retail, sport.

Vocational Education and Training. This is an arrangement in which a school is able to deliver curriculum in collaboration with an institute of TAFE or another external provider hence receiving accreditation for both SACE units and some TAFE modules