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Direct linkHayali, Tolga – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the relationship between 2011 freshman college mathematics and science grades and freshman students' high school academics and demographic data, exploring the factors that contribute to the success of first-year STEM majoring freshman students at State University of New York at Oswego. The variables were Gender, Race, SES,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Mathematics, College Science, STEM Education
Peer reviewedPopova-Gonci, Viktoria – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2009
In this article, the author presents an assortment of approaches--building blocks--commonly used in Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) practices (this list is certainly not comprehensive): (1) course matching (comparing course requirements to a student's prior learning experiences); (2) student's ability to articulate learning gained from…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Credits, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Suopis, Cynthia A. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2009
Margaret J. Wheatley, the organizational consultant who wrote the 1999 classic, "Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World," laments about the rigid structures and processes that often strangle organizations rendering them incapable of change. Wheatley asserts that organizations lack faith that their purpose…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Prior Learning, Experiential Learning, Organizational Change
Download full textEbersole, John – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2010
America does not have the workforce it needs for the economy that it has. That was a conclusion of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education in 2006. The Commission went on to note that if current trends are not reversed, the US economy and per capita income will actually decrease over the next 15 years, for the first time in US history. In…
Descriptors: Transfer Policy, Open Enrollment, Open Universities, Institutional Characteristics
Universities UK, 2016
Universities transform lives. Going to university leads to new ways of seeing the world, to new horizons and networks, and to significantly enhanced job opportunities, but not everyone benefits in the same way. Fewer students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds go to university, and when they do they tend not to do as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Access to Education
Mehaut, Philippe; Lecourt, Anne-Juliette – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2009
The purpose of this article is to examine the French system of accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL) in the light of experiences elsewhere in Europe. We shall do so by determining the extent to which the institutional characteristics of the system and the way in which it is put into practice reflect some of the main French societal…
Descriptors: Scoring Formulas, Institutional Characteristics, Labor Market, Experiential Learning
