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Download full textKlein-Collins, Rebecca; Taylor, Jason; Bishop, Carianne; Bransberger, Peace; Lane, Patrick; Leibrandt, Sarah – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2020
This report describes the adult student's experience with prior learning assessment (PLA) using student record data from 72 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States, primarily focusing on the data from 69 of those institutions based on the more detailed data provided by those institutions to the study. Researchers from the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, Adult Students, Student Records
Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Taylor, Jason; Bishop, Carianne; Bransberger, Peace; Lane, Patrick; Leibrandt, Sarah – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2020
This report describes the adult student's experience with prior learning assessment (PLA) using student record data from 72 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States, primarily focusing on the data from 69 of those institutions based on the more detailed data provided by those institutions to the study. Researchers from the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, Adult Students, Student Records
Buban, Jill – Online Learning Consortium, 2017
The Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) and The Presidents' Forum have released a new study authored and researched by the Online Learning Consortium's Dr. Jill Buban, which sheds light on how adult learning institutions address students who possess alternative credentials and seek to apply these experiences to a degree. This…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Prior Learning, Community Colleges, State Colleges
Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Olson, Richard – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2014
Many Latinos come to higher education as adults. One degree completion strategy that is particularly suited to adult students in higher education is prior learning assessment (PLA). PLA provides opportunities to evaluate a student's learning from work or life experience for the purpose of awarding college credit. For students whose…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Prior Learning, Experiential Learning, Adult Students
Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2011
In 2010, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) released a report on a multi-institutional study on prior learning assessment (PLA) and adult student outcomes. The study examined data from 62,475 adult students at 48 colleges and universities, following the students' academic progress over the course of seven years. The data from…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Prior Learning
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2010
Prior Learning Assessment, or PLA, is an important and often overlooked strategy for helping adults progress towards a degree. PLA is the process by which many colleges evaluate for academic credit the college-level knowledge and skills an individual has gained outside of the classroom, including employment, military training/service, travel,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time to Degree, School Surveys, Educational Policy
Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2010
Prior Learning Assessment, or PLA, is an important and often overlooked strategy for helping adults progress towards a degree. PLA is the process by which many colleges evaluate for academic credit the college-level knowledge and skills an individual has gained outside of the classroom (or from non-college instructional programs), including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Military Training
Peer reviewedLynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
