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Wisconsin Univ., Green Bay. – 1980
This guidebook is written for those who question the process of earning credit for experience and what knowledge and skills might lead to a credit award, and should assist educators who are approached for accreditation of knowledge and skills learned on a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)-funded job. There are five sections: the…
Descriptors: Credits, Experiential Learning, Federal Programs, Nonprofessional Personnel
Download full textEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1977
This monograph examines issues relative to the awarding of academic credit to out-of-school youths for work experience and training programs designed by prime sponsors or their contractors with local education agencies under the Youth Community Conservation and Improvements Projects, the Youth Employment and Training Programs, and by the…
Descriptors: Competence, Credits, Employment Programs, Experiential Learning
Sansregret, Marthe – 1985
This guide is designed for administrators of universities, colleges, school boards, and private institutions who wish to consider the implementation of a program for the recognition of prior learning within their institutions. To explain the possibility of transferring learning skills, some examples of the recognition of prior learning are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Credits, Experiential Learning
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1980
Methods and materials to assist colleges in evaluating the competencies that women acquire from their volunteer and homemaking experiences are described, including a counseling process based on the use of an "I can" list. Methods of dealing with faculty and administrative concerns about this type of experiential learning evaluation are…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Credits, Counseling, Evaluation Criteria
Wisconsin Univ., Green Bay. – 1980
The ways that Wisconsin colleges, technical institutes and high schools award credit for learning acquired through work experience are described. This guide was written after a statewide study of the policies and procedures of both postsecondary and secondary schools. Data were gathered in interviews with nearly every postsecondary school in…
Descriptors: Colleges, Credits, Equivalency Tests, Evaluation Methods
Sansregret, Marthe – 1985
This guide is designed to help the counselor work with adult students who cannot attend the 45-hour course on portfolio development and must prepare a portfolio within a program of independent studies. Chapter I gives an overview of the place that andragogical counselors occupy within the academic structure, their educational background, and some…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Credits, Experiential Learning
