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Direct linkRust, Dianna Z.; Ikard, William L. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2016
Prior learning assessment (PLA) is the process of evaluating learning, regardless of when or where the learning occurred, and, if the learning is at the college level, awarding college credit to the possessor of that learning. This article provides an overview of the PLA program at a large public U.S. institution and presents the findings of the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Public Colleges, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education
Download full textWomack, Farris W.; McCluskey, Jimmy D. – 1974
More than half of the colleges and universities in the U.S. require entering freshmen to present scores on the American College Test (ACT) as a condition of admission. Within recent years, colleges and universities have been asked to determine procedures whereby prior educational achievement and life experiences could be evaluated and college…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Equivalency Tests, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Doyle, Richard J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Reports the results of a survey of the practices of 78 Michigan colleges and universities in awarding and transferring credit for nontraditional or experiential learning. (WD)
Descriptors: College Credits, Evaluation Methods, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Klein, Anna C.; Whitney, Douglas R. – 1977
Procedures and related issues involved in the application of trait-treatment interaction (TTI) to institutional research, in general, and to placement and proficiency testing, in particular, are discussed and illustrated. Traditional methods for choosing cut-off scores are compared and proposals for evaluating the results in the TTI framework are…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Equivalency Tests
