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Download full textWhinnery, Erin – Education Commission of the States, 2017
This 50-State Comparison focuses on Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) policies, which refer to a process to award academic credit for prior learning. This process involves assessing the learning and workforce skills a student has acquired through life and employment experience. Assessments can be performed using a variety of tools such as a…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, State Policy, Educational Policy, College Credits
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Direct linkLeaker, Cathy; Ostman, Heather – College Composition and Communication, 2010
In this article, we argue that prior learning assessment (PLA) essays manifest a series of issues central to composition research and practice: they foreground the "contact zone" between the unauthorized writer, institutional power, and the articulation of knowledge claims; they reinforce the central role of a multifaceted approach to…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Writing (Composition), Evaluation, Reflection
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2007
This paper features several articles previously published in the CAEL (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) Forum and News, an e-newsletter CAEL regularly shares with its members. This publication includes a summary of the data gathered in CAEL's 2006 institutional survey on PLA (Prior Learning Assessment), results of a research on…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Surveys
