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Financial Aid for Prior Learning Assessment: Early Successes and Lessons from the U.S. Department of Education's Experimental Sites Initiative
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Plumlee, Tucker; Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2017
In 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor invited postsecondary institutions to participate in an experiment to learn how federal financial aid might be used to cover the costs of prior learning assessment (PLA). PLA is the process of evaluating a student's prior workplace and experiential learning for academic credit. While the experiment is still…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Success, Federal Aid, Experiential Learning