Application of Curriculum Learning Outcomes from an Adult Baccalaureate Degree Completion Program

Implementing Writing Assessment in a Degree Completion Program: Key Issues and Lessons Learned

“…Researchers utilized surveys measuring students' self-reported perceptions about their learning to demonstrate that nontraditional undergraduates learned as much as traditional students across a wide-range of subjects (Graham & Donaldson, 1999;Graham & Gisi, 2000). Other studies demonstrated high levels of self-reported learning for nontraditional undergraduates without a comparison with traditional students (Mishler, 1983) and for those in degree completion programs (Harris, 2003;Hoyt & Allred, 2008). Other positive outcomes were high satisfaction ratings, graduation, career employment and promotion, and graduate school attendance (Culver, 1993;Green, Ballard, & Kern, 2007;Guidos & Dooris, 2008;Hoyt & Allred, 2008;McKinney, 1991).…”