About the NAOAA
NAOAA has been founded by professional educators who understand that college credits should be awarded for life experience accurately and equitably assessed by trained and certified practitioners. It is an indisputable fact that significant learning takes place in the real world beyond the college classroom. One can acquire college equivalent learning in the workplace, the community, non-credit courses, volunteer activities, and through meaningful travel. Since credentials are often necessary even to attain an entry-level position, the assessment of prior learning is essential for fairness in hiring, both for potential employees and their employers, who obviously wish nothing more than to hire the best, most qualified person for the job. Today's changing job market often requires people to re-tool themselves through specific training. By providing certification to prior learning assessors, NAOAA is helping to assure that employers have a high degree of confidence when hiring applicants who have had their prior learning assessed by one of our members.
Our simple mission in founding NAOAA is to promote the validity and importance of PLA. If you're a practitioner of PLA or considering becoming one, you probably already understand the need for colleges to award course credits for work experience, knowledge, and skills. You understand, as we do, the many benefits of a Life Experience Degree: that it's widely accepted, quick and cost effective, resume enhancing, and can fulfill employer degree requirements. But, of course, colleges and employers alike want to attain a higher degree of confidence in knowing that the work experience, knowledge and skills that count toward course credits awarded by the PLA assessor are valid, verified, and accurate. That's where your NAOAA certification comes into play. NAOOA's unparalleled program and reputation instantly affirms the credibility and negotiability of your judgment and assessment of your students' qualifications and experience.
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