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What Is Next after 40 Years? Part 2: Prior Learning Assessment--2012 and after
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Travers, Nan L. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2012
The previous article, "Prior Learning Assessment: What is next after 40 years? Part 1: Prior Learning Assessment: 1970-2011" focused on the history of prior learning assessment (PLA) in the United States over the past 40 years. After exploring more recent recognition and development of PLA across institutions of higher education, the…
Descriptors: Colleges, Prior Learning, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods
What Is Next after 40 Years? Part 1: Prior Learning Assessment--1970-2011
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Travers, Nan L. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2012
Education practices focused on adult learners, such as prior learning assessment (PLA), are becoming more established in the United States. Initially, PLA was developed to provide greater access to higher education for World War II veterans and later for adult learners more generally as a way to balance the concentrated efforts most colleges and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Universities, Prior Learning, Adult Learning
Evaluating Prior Learning Assessment Programs: A Suggested Framework
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Travers, Nan L.; Evans, Marnie T. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
Over the past two decades, American institutions have been expected to include systematic program reviews to meet accrediting standards, either by independent or governmental review agencies. Program evaluation is critical for several reasons: it provides systematic ways to assess what needs improvement or what needs changing and it provides ways…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Audiences, Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness