Academic Leveling Courses

Peregrine Academic Services provides online courses used by academic institutions for academic leveling and assurance of learning. Each course includes a pre-test, 4-6 hours of instructional material organized into 4-8 sections, and a post-test. Courses can be used to build a customized academic leveling program suitable for either undergraduate transfer students or new graduate students. Use of the courses promotes student retention and improves graduation rates.

The ALC service is designed to address several AACSB, ACBSP, AMBA, EFMD, and IACBE accreditation requirements related to quality and assurance of learning.

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Prospective business majors, both undergraduate transfer students and new graduate students, often have to complete prerequisite or leveling courses when resuming their higher education program. Delivering prerequisite business courses can be burdensome for institutions due to time demands, costs, and scheduling.

Our ALC service is a leveling program solution for both undergraduate transfer students and new graduate students whereby the first course in the program of study includes 10-15 online courses that cover the breadth of the business education program. You can customize to align with your specific leveling needs, student requirements, and learning outcomes.

Each ALC course includes a 20-question pretest, 4-6 hours of online instructional material, and a 20-question post-test used for educational accountability. Typically, 10-15 ALC courses can be completed as either a prerequisite or as the first course in the program of study.

Our ALC service is highly customizable. You can offer the courses individually or in a package with two or more courses. You can also package the ALC service with Write & Cite: An Academic Writing Readiness Course and/or an Inbound Exam for baseline programmatic assessment.

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The two reports available for the ALC service include an individual student results report in Excel format and a summary report in PDF format. Unlimited and immediate access to the assessment data using a Client Admin site allows academic program managers and client school administrators the ability to generate a variety of reports that span any internal of time.

Samples of all of our reports are available through our DEMO site when you can self-register and complete a DEMO version of the exam or educational service. Please contact us at [email protected] for access information to the DEMO site and to view the sample reports. Please note that access to the DEMO site is restricted to only academic officials for the purpose of evaluating and understanding our online services.

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Several options exist for the delivery of the service to the students:

• Offer ALC course selection based on topic scores from the entrance assessment (a test-out option). 
• Insert 3-5 ALC courses within each of the first few courses of the curriculum. 
• Include 10-15 ALC courses as weekly assignments within the first course of the program of study. 

Program managers can keep the service cost-neutral by requiring students to purchase the courses, just as the students would for other course materials.

Additional information about the service, the application of the service for higher education, and information about integration of the service into the academic program is included within the brochure.

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