In this article, the author first traces the history of what is today known as the "Carnegie Unit" or course credit and discusses how it has become improperly equated with learning and abused in online and for-profit programs. The second half of the article provides statements concerning online credit hours from the following regional…

This guide is intended for students, career counsellors and others assisting vocational education and training (VET) students in the credit transfer process. It is based on research that set out to identify the core elements required to negotiate successful pathways from VET to higher education. Credit transfer structures between Deakin University…

Describes the Arizona "Course Equivalency Guide," a combined listing of courses at Arizona community colleges and universities, which enables students to evaluate whether and in what way each course is accepted for transfer at the universities.

This report outlines accomplishments relative to items listed in the April 16, 2007 Management Letter from the Assistant Deputy Minister of Advance Education to the British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT). The letter charged the Council to continue its role in facilitating student transfer and admission throughout the British…

This handbook provides the practicing educational and career counselor with basic information about a college's policy regarding credit by examination, particularly the College Level Examination Program (CLEP). CLEP is a national program that is readily available to the general public. It is designed to measure knowledge acquired outside the…

This is a book to help women who are thinking about entering or returning to college after spending several years as housewives and/or volunteers in their communities. The descriptive materials included will tell in general terms how the process of accrediting homemaking and volunteer experience might work: the skills that might be learned from…

This report outlines accomplishments relative to items listed in the February 23, 2006 Management Letter from the Assistant Deputy Minister of Advance Education to the British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT). A major focus of BCCAT during this year was the redesign and launch of BCCAT.bc.ca, implementing a number of…

Certain college policies and procedures in admissions, financial aid, and placement and credit by examination are summarized. Most of the colleges supplied the information on admissions and financial aid in the summer and fall of 1974 for the current edition of "The College Handbook", published by the College Board in September 1975.…

The 1976 edition of the handbook provides the most up-to-date accumulation of credit-by-examination policy data available. It is the result of several independent surveys conducted over the past few years. The survey for this edition resulted in about half of the institutions listed filing updated information. The College Level Examination Program…

This guide is a comprehensive listing of institutions that honor or grant credit or placement through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program (AP) or College-Level Examination Program (CLEP). Included also are colleges' policies regarding the use of the Test of Standard Written English (TSWE) and the Achievement Tests for placement purposes…

This document, identified as Part V of a loose leaf handbook, is the 1977-79 supplement for Parts II, III, and IV of the original handbook, 1976 edition. Part II of the handbook listed tabular data concerning credit by external examinations such as the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), the Advanced Placement Program (APP), and the American…

For the purposes of meeting the demands of the twentieth century, it is recommended that colleges adopt a form of mosaic programming. The elements of the structural framework for such programming are: (1) All general education courses should be organized as learning modules of one academic credit hour in equivalency, with written course goals and…

This handbook gives the adult student information to complete portfolios that are designed to help adult students earn college credits for outside experience. Portfolio assessment is a flexible and efficient way to earn college credit. Nearly any area of learning can be converted into credits as long as it is taught at a regionally accredited…

This national guide presents credit recommendations and course descriptions for education officials to consider when granting credit to students for learning acquired in noncollegiate organizations. The courses listed in the guide represent only a small sample of the educational programs conducted by the participating organizations. A section on…

On March 8, 2005, the Ministry of Advanced Education sent British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, (BCCAT) a management letter setting out the expectations of the Ministry of Advanced Education for the BC Council on Admissions and Transfer in 2005-06. This Annual Report is presented to specify how BCCAT has addressed those expectations…