Foreign Language Prior Learning Assessment PLA portfolio

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Thank you for the additional information. So, you're saying that I could complete one portfolio and the required PLA course at Learning Counts and not have to worry about taking PLA-100 and PLA-200 in order to do more portfolios through TESC? Do the credits earned through TESC portfolios count toward the residency requirements under the Per Credit Tuition Plan? Also, can someone do portfolios for science labs?

Well, that is not what I would recommend, since Learning Counts' course is almost the same as ours, and theirs costs $895, which includes one three-credit portfolio. I guess that's less expensive than our Per Credit Tuition Plan.

While the policy may change in the future, and you should check with an Academic Advisor here, yes, according to the website, "Residency requirements are met by earning credits via Thomas Edison State College Online (OL), Guided Study (GS) or e-Pack (EP) courses, TECEP exams (TE) or Portfolio Assessment (PA)." So PLA does count toward the residency requirement.

As for labs: the catalog says you can't earn credit for "stand-alone lab courses." If you can demonstrate your lab knowledge that is part of a full course (like a Bio course with lab) through a portfolio, and I can't imagine it would be easy, you can do that.