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Authenticity For Assurance And Accountability: Reconnecting Standards And Qualities For Pla Competence And Course-Based Frameworks, Gretchen Wilbur, Catherine Marienau, Morry Fiddler
Authenticity For Assurance And Accountability: Reconnecting Standards And Qualities For Pla Competence And Course-Based Frameworks, Gretchen Wilbur, Catherine Marienau, Morry Fiddler
SCPS Competency-based Education Publications and Presentations
An authentic PLA approach for quality assurance and accountability integrates the historical contributions of both course-based and competence-based frameworks and intersects assessment qualities with standards. The authors report on a CAEL inquiry project in which LearningCounts.org assessors used multiple frameworks to assess PLA portfolios. An overarching theme of the qualitative assessment data was that specific, flexible, and transparent criteria are required for valid prior learning assessment and these characteristics transcend frameworks. Themes from the analysis were located on a matrix intersecting assessment qualities--clarity, integrity, empathy, and flexibility—with standards for quality assurance in assessing learning. The findings suggest that such assessment …
Proposal For A New, Experimental, Unit Of Study At Depaul University, John T. Richardson, C.M.
Proposal For A New, Experimental, Unit Of Study At Depaul University, John T. Richardson, C.M.
SCPS Competency-based Education Publications and Presentations
Proposal for what became the School for New Learning at DePaul University, one of an early wave of experimental, competency-based programs for adult and "nontraditional" students.