The concept that "time is money" applies to the life outlook of community college students as much as anyone. Their success in completing a degree or certificate is often an equation that weighs their financial resources against how long they will need to finish. Prior learning assessments (PLA), which award academic credit for students'…

Credit by Exam is a mechanism employed in the California community colleges as a means of granting credit for student learning outside of the traditional classroom. In some instances, credit by exam is the means used to award college credit for structured learning experiences in a secondary educational setting, while in other instances knowledge…

Discusses the screening and evaluation procedure at Central Michigan University that allows students to meet their communication competency requirement without taking a course. Examines the credit by exam option, the "Oral English Test-Out" procedure, and the implications of testing-out. (KEH)

This article describes procedures for student personnel workers in colleges and universities to use in planning for granting academic credit for experience outside the classroom. (CD)

San Francisco State College's new program of credit by examination enabled 38 percent of the 1971 freshmen who took the CLEP to become instant sophomores. (HS)

The challenge examination covers content, communication abilities, medications, and nursing procedure demonstrations. This approach provides both the equivalency testing necessary to equate past learning with material covered in a particular course. (MW)

Since credit-by-examination is an intrinsically sound educational device, those who administer it might well take steps to protect it from abuse. Colleges should insist that both content specialists and measurement experts participate in evaluating the tests and the College Entrance Examination Board should revise its procedures so that…

The appropriateness of the National Board of Medical Examiners Part I examination was determined as an internal evaluation of second year students at a midwestern medical school. Review of the June 1974 examination by 37 faculty revealed that 85 percent of the items reflected the content of the second year curriculum with information necessary to…

Considers the good and bad points of the three composition tests in the CLEP program. Finds that the Freshman English Subject Examination is a better over-all test than the General Examination in English Composition or the English Composition Examination. (RL)

Thomas A. Edison College, New Jersey's ninth state college, has awarded associate or bachelor's degrees to more than a thousand students for work completed at other colleges or for knowledge gained on the job or through independent study. It has no faculty, no library and a small office building for a campus--here its evaluation criteria are…

Students, if they elect to challenge both first-year nursing courses, must take two corresponding series of written and practical tests. Steps in devising the challenge exam system, maintaining high standards, testing format, general education requirements, and evaluation are topics discussed. (MW)