Assessment of Prior Learning
A Practitioner's Guide

By Malcolm Day
December 2002
Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 0-7487-6933-1
120 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4"
$39.95 Paper Original


This is an interactive text intended for anyone undertaking assessment of prior learning in nursing, allied health care and social care. It aims to be a resource for anyone having to judge the level of experience of students and colleagues and is a sample diary acting as a guide to recording learning activities. There is also a glossary of vocabulary associated with prior learning assessment to help the reader understand what is required. Malcolm Day brings together the experience of specialists in this field from Canada, USA and South Africa (where this has been a major part of education since the 1970s). This is an interactive text which helps develop anyone undertaking Assessment of Prior Learning in nursing, allied health care and social care.

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