Chapter 1: Terms and Definitions

Chapter 1: Terms and Definitions

Academy director - See 6VAC20-90-10

Agency administrator – See 6VAC20-90-10

Apprenticeship - See 6VAC20-80-10

Approved training - See 6VAC20-90-10

Board - See 6VAC20-90-10

Certified criminal justice training academy - See 6VAC20-90-10

Compulsory minimum training standards - See 6VAC20-90-10

Criteria - Those items covered during the training on which the person will be tested for successful achievement.

Demonstrate - The selection and application of general rules, procedures, and methods for specific situations through written, oral, or physical means.

Department - See 6VAC20-90-10

Director - See 6VAC20-90-10

Evaluate – To make judgments about the value of information (both obvious and obscure), dates, materials, results, or methods and demonstrate this through written, oral, or physical means.

External training location - See 6VAC20-90-10

Field Training Objectives - Statements related to tasks or elements of tasks that must be accomplished during field training at the employing agency.

Identify – The indication of understanding of facts or combination of facts, basic concepts, principles or theories through written, oral, or physical means.

Instructional staff - See 6VAC20-80-10

Instructor - See 6VAC20-80-10

Lesson Plan Guide – The information related to the content of training that shall be included in the detailed lesson plan for the particular topic.

Mandated training - See 6VAC20-90-10

Oral exercise - An exercise by which the trainee is tested and must demonstrate the knowledge related to a task or set of tasks using verbal skills to the satisfaction of the instructor.

Performance Outcome - Knowledge and behavior that a person is expected to be able to demonstrate as a result of training; the performance of a task or set of tasks that may be expected as a result of training.

Physical exercise - An exercise by which the trainee is tested and must demonstrate the physical skill or skills needed to perform a task or set of tasks to the satisfaction of the instructor or to reach a specified score.

Practical exercise - An exercise using any combination of oral, physical, or written components that is designed to have the trainee demonstrate a task or set of tasks to the satisfaction of the instructor or to reach a specified score.

Regional criminal justice academy - See § 15.2-1747 of the Code of Virginia

Satellite facility - See 6VAC20-90-10

Standard - A level of attainment regarded as a measure of adequacy.

Test - An oral, physical or written exercise by which the trainee is measured for satisfactory completion of an objective.

Training Objective - The statement(s) briefly describing what the person should be able to identify or demonstrate related to a desired outcome.

Written exercise - any generally recognized written method for testing knowledge or writing skills acquired by a trainee during training. These include but are not limited to the following:

1. Multiple choice 2. Matching 3. Fill in blanks 4. Essay

5. Case studies 6. Interactive computer uses 7. Combinations of the above 8. Others as may be identified as valid