APPENDIX A: KEY ACRONYMS

• ACP – Adult Secondary School Credit Programs
• AU – Academic Upgrading
• CESBA – Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education School Board Administrators
• CIPMS – Continuous Improvement Performance Management System
• CLO – Community Literacy of Ontario
• CSC – College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading
• EDU – Ministry of Education
• ES – Essential Skills
• HRSDC – Human Resources and Social Development Canada
• IALS – International Adult Literacy Survey
• IRT – Item Response Theory
• LBS – Literacy and Basic Skills
• LSA – Learner Skill Attainment
• Le Cap – Centre d'apprentissage et de perfectionnement inc.
• PDQ – Prose, Document and Quantitative Profile Series
• PTP – PTP Adult Learning and Employment Programs
• TCU – Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
• TOWES – Test of Workplace Essential Skills