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| ICS (Integrated Community Schools) | An integrated community school encourages closer and better joint working among education, health and social work agencies and professionals, greater pupil and parental involvement in schools, and improved support and service provision for vulnerable children and young people. |
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| ICT | Information and communications technology. |
| INCA (International Review of Curriculum and Assessment Frameworks) | INCA provides descriptions of government policy on education in Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland (forthcoming), Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA and Wales. It focuses on curriculum, assessment and initial teacher training frameworks for pre-school, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education in schools (3-19 age range). |
| INSET | An acronym for In-service Education and Training. This term has now been superseded by continuing professional development (CPD). |
| Int 1 (Intermediate 1) | A National Qualification equivalent to Standard Grade at General level. |
| Int 2 (Intermediate 2) | A National Qualification equivalent to Standard Grade at Credit level. |
| Internet | A worldwide network of computer networks. From any connected computer with the right permission, you can get information from any other computer – and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers). |
| Intranet | A private network, often made up of many interlinked local area networks. Used to share information and computing resources among a community, an intranet is a good way of helping people work in groups. An intranet usually includes connections to the outside internet. |
| IP Telephony | Using the internet to make telephone and fax calls. Calls travel as packets of data on shared lines, avoiding the costs of the public switched telephone network. The challenge in IP telephony is to deliver the voice, fax, or video packets in a dependable flow to the user. This depends on Quality of Service (QoS). |
| Ipsative assessment | From Latin 'ipse', meaning himself, a form of assessment where the pupil’s prior performance is used as criterion for measurement of progress. In sport, for example, an individual’s personal best is the benchmark against which improvement is assessed. |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider. A company that provides access to the internet. Some are free, where you just pay the price of a local phone call to dial the internet, others charge a fee but may offer special benefits, such as telephone support. |
| ITALES (Innovative Teaching And Learning Environments for Schools) | European funded Research and Development project whose key aim is to advance innovative teaching and learning frameworks for the 'School of Tomorrow'. |
| ITE (Initial Teacher Education) | This is the training to enable people to qualify to become teachers. In Scotland it is provided by seven universities through their faculties of education. |
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