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| E-procurement | Where businesses buy and sell supplies or services to other businesses – over the internet and/or intranet. |
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| EA (Education Authority) | Every one of the 32 local authorities in Scotland is also an education authority for its area. |
| EI (Emotional intelligence) | The ability to perceive and understand, and act appropriately and reflectively on, one's own and other people's feelings and emotions. Where EI is not specifically related to cognitive or academic intelligence, it encompasses qualities such as self-awareness, self-control, and self-motivation. A person with emotional intelligence will have the ability to empathise with others and practise restraint. |
| EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) | The oldest teaching union in the world. The Institute plays a full part in the trade union movement in Scotland, the rest of the United Kingdom and international teacher affairs through affiliation to and active participation in the trade union organisations. |
| Electronic mail. A service which allows people to send and receive messages and files, usually through a computer. | |
| Encryption | Complex mathematical codes which secure private information on computer networks. |
| EOC (Equal Opportunities Commission) Scotland | Works to create a fairer society for women and men in Scotland. It provides information and advice, campaigns on issues of sex equality and supports legal cases. It works with the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government, spreading best practice and promoting equality. |
| Eurydice (information network on education in Europe) | An institutional network for gathering, monitoring, processing and circulating reliable and readily comparable information on education systems and policies throughout Europe. |
| Evaluation | The process of determining the significance, effectiveness or success of a lesson, project, innovation, policy, etc. |
| Evidence (of learning) | In assessment or evaluation, evidence is used to give a valid foundation to a judgement, or proof, that the criteria of success have been met at a particular level. In essence, this consists of any relevant behaviour or event. In assessment it includes what pupils do and say in classwork, or in response to a particular task, as well as what they write, or their performance in a test. |
| Exemplar | A model of work used to demonstrate the achievement of, or failure to achieve, the criteria or standard for success. |
| Extended reading | Depending on the context, extended reading may involve pupils in reading complete texts, extended extracts from texts or a number of related texts from the same subject or theme. The purpose of extended reading may be for pleasure, to find information, to compare views and ideas or to evaluate literary skill. |
| Extended writing | An activity in which pupils are required to develop, at some length, a piece of writing on a topic or theme. It provides the opportunity for writers to pursue and develop ideas or arguments more substantially. It also brings important concepts such as planning, structure and characterisation into focus. |
| Extranet | A network which uses internet technology, but can only be accessed by certain organisations or individuals. |
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