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Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR)
is a systematic process that assesses and recognizes an individual’s
knowledge and skills regardless of where or how the learning was acquired.
Within a post-secondary learning system, a PLAR process generally involves
the assessment of experiential learning for educational credit or occupational
certification with reference to the standards of the credential granting
body. Experiential learning can be non-formal (e.g., workplace-based
training, non-credit courses) or informal (e.g., learning resulting
from life experience, workplace-based learning, hobbies, volunteer
activities, family chores, etc).
Over the past decade, PLAR has been increasingly acknowledged as a
valuable human resource planning strategy that can be used to effectively
address the challenges of skill identification and assessment in a
knowledge-based economy where continuous learning is encouraged and
supported.
PLAR processes can be applied when what a person knows and can do
is assessed in relation to a certain goal (see Section 2.7 of the RPL Referral Guide)
INTERESTED IN MORE INFORMATION?
Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment
http://www.capla.ca
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