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Inherent Tensions Within the Practices of Prior Learning Assessment at Suny Empire State College

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Prior learning assessment (PLA)1 in higher education has grown tremendously over the past decade and is reaching across multiple sectors worldwide (Colardyn & Bjornavold, 2004; Hawley, Otero, & Duchemin, 2010; Werquin, 2010). As part of the higher education degree completion agenda in the United States, PLA is increasingly accepted as a legitimate means to assess and credential university-level credits (Sherman, Klein-Collins, & Palmer, 2012).

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Travers, N. (2017). Inherent Tensions Within the Practices of Prior Learning Assessment at Suny Empire State College. In: Jelly, K., Mandell, A. (eds) Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-884-6_12

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