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Tan, Saw Fen; Din Eak, Arathai; Ooi, Li Hsien; Abdullah, Anna Christina – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study aims to compare the academic performance and types of learning strategies used by APEL and regular entry undergraduates. It also explored the relationship between the academic performance and the types of learning strategies utilised by these two groups of undergraduate. Design/methodology/approach: This…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Prior Learning
Li, Raymond; Wong, Tina – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2018
This study examines the effectiveness of classroom experiments conducted before the relevant theories were taught. The experiments were used to provide students with first-hand experience of decision-making under various rivalry settings and to demonstrate several key predictions of oligopoly models. Statistical methods were used to analyze the…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Class Activities, Theory Practice Relationship, Decision Making
Bentley, Erinn; Brown, Jennifer – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Writing proficiencies in the K-12 setting and at the post-secondary level have become stagnant and have decreased in some instances. Several studies indicated using peer review was beneficial for students by increasing student engagement and providing appropriate feedback. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of a peer review workshop…
Descriptors: College Students, Preservice Teachers, Writing Skills, Peer Evaluation
Kruger, Evonne J.; Holtzman, Diane M.; Dagavarian, Debra A. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2013
There are many types of student portfolios used within academia: the prior learning portfolio, credentialing portfolio, developmental portfolio, capstone portfolio, individual course portfolio, and the comprehensive education portfolio. The comprehensive education portfolio (CEP), as used by the authors, is a student portfolio, developed over…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Evidence, Experiential Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Neem, Johann N. – Thought & Action, 2012
Western Governors University was conceptualized in 1995 at a meeting of the Western Governors Association, and founded soon after in an effort to increase degree production in higher education at a lower cost. It has expanded significantly over the past few years, driven both by increased demand for online education and by drastic state budget…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Competence, Certification
Strang, Kenneth David – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2012
An experiment compared asynchronous versus synchronous instruction in an online quantitative course. Mann-Whitney U-tests, correlation, analysis of variance, t tests, and multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) were utilized to test the hypothesis that more high-quality online experiential learning interactions would increase grade.…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Interaction, Statistical Analysis, Business Administration
Rakap, Salih – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2010
This study investigated the influences of learning styles/preferences, prior computer skills and experience with online courses on adult learners' knowledge acquisition in a web-based special education course. Forty-six adult learners who enrolled in a web-based special education course participated in the study. The results of the study showed…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Haldane, Andrew; Wallace, John – European Journal of Education, 2009
This article recognises the well-established processes available to educators for the validation of competence, however acquired, and suggests that these mechanisms could be deployed more frequently in future. This proposition is based on employers' adoption of work-based learning strategies that focus on learning outcomes rather than on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Testing, Experiential Learning
Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2011
In 2010, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) released a report on a multi-institutional study on prior learning assessment (PLA) and adult student outcomes. The study examined data from 62,475 adult students at 48 colleges and universities, following the students' academic progress over the course of seven years. The data from…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Prior Learning
Moffit, Timothy; Stull, Charles; McKinney, Hannah – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
Over the past several decades, colleges and universities have moved away from the traditional chalk-and-talk lecture. Professors have experimented with a myriad of methods to engage students more fully. Some of the innovations that have been used have succeeded in improving student performance and satisfaction. In this paper we report the learning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education, Finance Occupations, Economics Education
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2010
Prior Learning Assessment, or PLA, is an important and often overlooked strategy for helping adults progress towards a degree. PLA is the process by which many colleges evaluate for academic credit the college-level knowledge and skills an individual has gained outside of the classroom, including employment, military training/service, travel,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time to Degree, School Surveys, Educational Policy
Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2010
Prior Learning Assessment, or PLA, is an important and often overlooked strategy for helping adults progress towards a degree. PLA is the process by which many colleges evaluate for academic credit the college-level knowledge and skills an individual has gained outside of the classroom (or from non-college instructional programs), including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Military Training
Abisi, Frederick Assad; And Others – 1981
This manual describes a program that recognizes and assesses all prior learning in academics as well as in life skills and recommends a variety of educational opportunities so that adult learners can prepare themselves to meet requirements for high school certification. Four major areas of the Lowell Adult Diploma Program (LADP) are reviewed: time…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Credits, Educational Certificates
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Sansregret, Marthe – 1997
Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) is a new field, but it has a long history, since children have always learned from adults and demonstrated their competence by observation of their work or by the quality of their products or services. Later, formal learning became more valuable and recognized school credentials paved the way to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Adults, College Programs
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