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Download full textRozvadská, Katarina – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2023
This is a study of the process of biographical learning and how it can be observed in narration. There have not yet been empirical studies focused explicitly on the learning aspects of biographical learning, as scholars have focused more on the biographical part of the concept -- more on the question of what is learned than of how it is learned.…
Descriptors: Biographies, Personal Narratives, Learning Processes, College Students
Direct linkRust, Dianna Z.; Brinthaupt, Thomas M. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2017
Prior learning assessment (PLA) is the process whereby a student's outside-of-the-classroom learning is evaluated for college-level credit. PLA has been gaining momentum across the United States as part of the efforts to improve institutional completion rates for adult learners. In the present article, we provide an overview of the PLA portfolio…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Prior Learning, Student Evaluation
Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Wertheim, Judith B. – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2013
Starting in 1974, the "Council for Adult and Experiential Learning" (CAEL) has helped colleges and universities develop and expand their prior learning assessment (PLA) programs for adult and other non-traditional learners. In the past several years, with new and ambitious degree completion goals for adults, the U.S. is witnessing what…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Adult Education, Adult Students
Universities UK, 2016
Universities transform lives. Going to university leads to new ways of seeing the world, to new horizons and networks, and to significantly enhanced job opportunities, but not everyone benefits in the same way. Fewer students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds go to university, and when they do they tend not to do as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Access to Education
Peer reviewedMartens, Rob; Dochy, Filip – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1997
The effects of prior knowledge and progress assessment on learning behaviors and motivation were studied in the context of self-study by students at the Open University of the Netherlands. Results with 1,482 adult students show their positive appreciation of assessments for student support but less appreciation of feedback received by mail. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Students, Educational Assessment
Nyquist, Ewald B.; And Others – 1977
Nontraditional methods of qualifying for a college degree are described in this student guide to off-campus study and examination. The three external degree institutions in the United States that offer these programs are discussed. They include: Regents External Degree Program of the University of the State of New York; Thomas A. Edison College of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, College Credits, College Students
