What College Really Sells: The Price of Proving What You Already Know
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- What College Really Sells: The Price of Proving What You Already Know
- Author
- Trajkovski, Dr Goran
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798140568634
A student passes introductory statistics at one college, transfers, and is told to take it again. Sometimes the second course teaches her something she needs. Often it teaches what she already knows. The transcript cannot tell the two cases apart, and usually no one else does either.
This book asks why learning that has already happened so often fails to count, and what the least burdensome trustworthy way would be to stop students from paying twice for it.
Drawing on decades of work in course development, assessment, competency-based education, and academic administration, Goran Trajkovski follows a credit from the classroom to the degree audit. The route has seven stages: capability, evidence, certification, credit, recognition, applicability, and progress. It can break at any of them. Sometimes the receiving program cannot tell what the student learned. Sometimes the evidence would be enough if anyone looked at it, but no one has decided in advance what the course is worth. Sometimes the student lacks one bounded piece of a requirement. And sometimes the requirement is legitimate and should stand.
Each failure calls for a different remedy, and the remedies differ in cost by orders of magnitude. The book sets them in order:
- making existing rules visible and correct
- binding advance commitments about which requirement a course satisfies
- short demonstrations or instructional bridges for a specific gap
- shared, independently scored certification, but only where an explicit cost comparison shows it does better than cheaper alternatives
Along the way it examines:
- the federal accreditation rule taking effect in July 2027, and why it reaches refused credit more than accepted credit that fails to count
- what Pell Grant and visa rules mean for bridges
- what artificial intelligence changes about teaching and about trustworthy evidence
- how to cost assessment honestly
- how a state system could test which remedy works before paying for it
Sometimes a student needs a better way to show what she can do. Sometimes the evidence is already sufficient, and what is missing is an institutional decision to act on it. This book is a practical guide to telling those cases apart, written for provosts, chief academic officers, and state higher education leaders, and for the registrars, assessment professionals, and faculty who carry out their decisions.
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