
Assessment of Prior Learning
A Practitioner's Guide 2e
Malcolm Day(Author)
Cengage Learning EMEA (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 5. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-4080-6805-2 (ISBN)
Description
This extremely topical and updated second edition of Assessment of Prior Learning: A Practitioners Guide focuses on the methods of correctly documenting and comprehensively assessing evidence of prior learning at institutions, outside formal education or training or via previous careers which enables students to gain credits on an academic course of study.
Fully in-line with the updated Nursing and Midwifery Councils standards, this accessible text provides a wealth of activities to promote reflective study, fully customisable diary and assessment records and new contributors providing an insight to Assessment of Prior Leaning from a wider international context.
Fully in-line with the updated Nursing and Midwifery Councils standards, this accessible text provides a wealth of activities to promote reflective study, fully customisable diary and assessment records and new contributors providing an insight to Assessment of Prior Leaning from a wider international context.
Reviews / Votes
DRAFT CHAPTER ONE, CONTEXTS CHAPTER TWO, PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER THREE, DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UK CHAPTER FOUR, DEVELOPMENTS IN CANADA CHAPTER FIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER SIX, THE CAREER OF THE PLA PRACTITIONER CHAPTER SEVEN, CONCLUSIONMore details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 7 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 246 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4080-6805-2 (9781408068052)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Malcolm Day is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing and APL Advisor at Nottingham University School of Nursing, where he runs a postgraduate teaching and learning module as part of the PGCE for newly appointed university teaching staff.
Malcolm is also Secretary to the newly formed International Indigenous RPL Collective. This is a worldwide network that recognises the prior learning(RPL) of indigenous people, and he has had a key role in facilitating the development of APL within British Columbia and the newly emergent Universities of Technology in South Africa.
Malcolm is also Secretary to the newly formed International Indigenous RPL Collective. This is a worldwide network that recognises the prior learning(RPL) of indigenous people, and he has had a key role in facilitating the development of APL within British Columbia and the newly emergent Universities of Technology in South Africa.
Content
Preface
Chapter One: What is Assessment of Prior Learning?
Chapter Two: Benchmarks for Assessment of Prior Learning
Chapter Three: Developments in the UK- the case of pre-registration nurse training
Chapter 4: Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR): a case study of a human service programme in Canada
Chapter 5: Assessment of prior learning in the US
Chapter 6: The case of a human services related programme in Mauritius
Chapter 7: The Career of the APL Practitioner
Chapter One: What is Assessment of Prior Learning?
Chapter Two: Benchmarks for Assessment of Prior Learning
Chapter Three: Developments in the UK- the case of pre-registration nurse training
Chapter 4: Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR): a case study of a human service programme in Canada
Chapter 5: Assessment of prior learning in the US
Chapter 6: The case of a human services related programme in Mauritius
Chapter 7: The Career of the APL Practitioner