This guide is intended to aid high school students in their educational planning. Colleges and universities state their policies in granting college credit for successful completion of Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in high school. The guide also represents certification of these policies to the Department of Education and to the Minnesota…

The State of Florida Department of Education provides pre-and-post-graduation data for public high school graduates throughout Florida. These data were used for the present report to produce data sets for all M-DCPS regular high schools and charter high schools graduating students in 2008 and 2009. Summary data for the district are also provided.…

The 1974-75 academic year is the first in which student credit hours have been accumulated for the entire University of Maine, utilizing uniform definitions. The purpose of this document is to summarize those data for both semesters. A total of 578,457 student credit hours were generated by all campuses of the University of Maine during the…

Reviews the present situation of off-campus programs in terms of the value placed on off-campus degrees, process-oriented standards of accreditation, the agencies that evaluate continuing education programs, the federal government's interest and role, and guidelines for evaluating administration, faculty, and students. (MB)

This document represents BCCAT's position on instructor qualifications within the BC Transfer System. These concern: (1) BC Transfer System Instructor Qualification Standards; and (2) Establishing and Monitoring Expectations.

There currently are 32 states in the American Diploma Project (ADP) Network, each dedicated to developing and implementing a college and career readiness agenda. At the same time, all fifty states are implementing requirements of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006. The Perkins Act and the American Diploma…

There are numerous signs that the focus in high school is widening to give seniors more freedom in selecting the academic components of their final secondary school year. This issue describes the ways in which 10 schools, in cooperation with colleges and universities, are making college courses and college credit available to hign school seniors.…

Adult education programs in higher education are being developed in various forms which have encouraged enrollment by a growing number of adults. An educational accounting system is being developed by the American Society for Training and Development to assess the learning achievements of adults participating in these programs. (EC)

Describes the scope of experiences for which people are seeking credit at the post secondary level and suggest some techniques for dealing with them noting that when this experiential learning is school-controlled it is sticky--but becomes more complicated when petitioners submit personal experiences from the past. (HD)

This report describes the first two stages of the National Assessment project: gathering data on cooperative education objectives and developing tests for assessing learning outcomes of work experience programs. Problems in the measurement of experiential learning are also discussed. (SK)

Because off-campus programs have become an extensive part of higher education, accrediting agencies are strengthening standards and emphasizing site visits and reviews. Areas of controversy in the accreditation process include definition of units of credit, abbreviated degree programs, and credit for prior experience. Responsibility for…

A study examined the American experience of accrediting employer-provided training. Interviews were conducted with 16 persons: 2 representatives of accrediting agencies, 9 representatives of employers with accredited training programs, and 5 persons with expertise in a closely related field. Based on these interviews, it appeared that where there…

This guide is intended for use by counselors, providing them with credit recommendations and course descriptions to assist the process of granting credit to students for learning acquired in noncollegiate activity. The guide is divided into two sections. Section 1 contains course exhibits for courses which have been reviewed and recommended for…

The director of the Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning (CAEL) describes his organization and its Institutional Development Program in Experiential Learning, which involves resource persons working with participating postsecondary institutions in providing experiential education for a diversity of students. (MF)

Over the last several years there have been numerous calls for reforming high school to college transitions. In 2000-2001, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the National Commission on the High School Senior Year respectively called for a re-thinking of how students moved from secondary to postsecondary education. A widely-discussed…