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Direct linkTravers, Nan L. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2013
The heart of prior learning assessment (PLA) is the quality and validity of the academic evaluation process itself. Institutions providing PLA opportunities are faced with issues of accountability from all constituents: students, faculty, state systems, and accrediting agencies. Increasingly, institutions are more and more accepting of different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Credits, Accreditation (Institutions), Prior Learning
Travers, Nan L. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2012
Education practices focused on adult learners, such as prior learning assessment (PLA), are becoming more established in the United States. Initially, PLA was developed to provide greater access to higher education for World War II veterans and later for adult learners more generally as a way to balance the concentrated efforts most colleges and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Universities, Prior Learning, Adult Learning
Travers, Nan L. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2012
The previous article, "Prior Learning Assessment: What is next after 40 years? Part 1: Prior Learning Assessment: 1970-2011" focused on the history of prior learning assessment (PLA) in the United States over the past 40 years. After exploring more recent recognition and development of PLA across institutions of higher education, the article ends…
Descriptors: Colleges, Prior Learning, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedTravers, Nan L.; Sheckley, Barry G.; Bell, Alexandra A. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2003
Community colleges students (n=24) taught math by instructors trained in self-regulated learning were compared with 54 taught conventionally. Mean scores did not differ but self-regulation techniques strengthened the relations among feedback seeking, self-regulation standard, internal calibration, perceiving choice, and effective learning…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Feedback, Learning Processes
