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Peer reviewedRose, Amy D. – Adult Education Quarterly, 1991
The influx of veterans into higher education after World War II led to the development of a monumental system for testing and evaluation of prior learning through military service. The assumptions of the process continue to have implications for the assessment of adult life experience and its integration in college curricula. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Credits, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Download full textLiteracy Beat, 1988
Although it is being taken in greater numbers and by increasingly younger people, the General Education Development (GED) test is viewed skeptically by the military, college admission officials, and some employers. The public perception of the GED tends to give it second-class status compared to a high school diploma. However, studies of GED…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Employer Attitudes
