Recognition of prior learning
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Recognition of Prior Learning, Prior Learning Assessment, or Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition, describes the set of standards and procedures put in place by educational institutions to assign advanced standing to prospective students. Typically referred to as RPL or PLA by education professionals, it is most often associated with adult education.
The term RPL has been used in two slightly different ways in recent times. Discussion influenced by the OECD and the project of Lifelong Learning tends to restrict RPL to the recognition of non-formal and informal learning - with the result that the recognition of formal learning is called Credit Transfer. More traditional educational discussion uses RPL to include credit transfer and sometimes creates different terms for the narrower sense.
