TG Funds Research on Latino Students’ Experiences with Prior Learning Assessment Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), a national leader in adult education advocacy, has been awarded a grant by Texas-based TG for a research study on the experiences of Latino college students with prior learning assessment (PLA), an evaluation process which measures the collegiate-level learning that adults have received outside of a traditional classroom for college credit. For the project, CAEL is collaborating with Excelencia in Education, a national leader in the advocacy of Latino student success, and the organization will help inform and support the research, reach out to potential institutional participants and disseminate the findings. In the project, CAEL will work with ten postsecondary institutions that offer PLA services and have a sizable Latino student population. CAEL will analyze each institution’s student record data to understand the PLA experiences of Latino students, and this analysis will be supplemented with information from student interviews and PLA program staff interviews. More...