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..... read more
What is PLA?
Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) is a process that gives credit to prior life/work experience through the awarding of college credits for knowledge you have acquired in life and on the job. In essence, PLA is an efficient and flexible way of earning college credits for what you've done and learned outside the college classroom.... read more
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Why Be Certified?
NAOAA certification will provide our members with consistent standards for what constitutes LE equivalency and how real life experiences can be equated to academia/college credits. Our members will learn to develop a professional portfolio assessment system for PLA programs by better understanding the connection.... read more
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Who Should Get Certified?
You should be certified if you currently or in the future intend to assess someone's real life qualifications to provide any type or level of academic equivalency, whether for one or 100 credits. You may be a professor, an advisor, a counselor, or working.... read more
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Requirements
The process of becoming a certified member of NAOAA will take the average person approximately 4 weeks (working an hour a day) and will cost.... read more
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How to Get Certified
The following steps detail the process for becoming a certified member of the NAOAA....
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