I am following this with great interest, because am thinking about using ALEKS for my kids, and as they hit upper maths this might be very nice. According to their email reply, you can pay for your plan (month, year, etc) and then that student just continues to advance through the math levels. This seems like another awesome way for homeschooled children to earn college credit! My son loves the computer, so this might be a very motivating way to get him moving through algebra and beyond.

(side note- ALEKS is an awesome program- I spent two days on the trial playing around, and I love the administrative features too. Worth a look)

If it isn't too involved, would someone who is "working the plan" be willing to post SPECIFICALLY how the process works or what steps someone needs to follow to earn credit this way? I REALLY appreciate it!!!!! Thanks!

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Jennifer
ALM, Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University, 2099 or sometime sooner
AA & BA, Social Sciences, Thomas Edison State College, 2008
AOS, Culinary Arts, Culinary Institute of America, 1990

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"Brick walls are there for a reason....They’re there to stop the other people.” Randy Pausch

no one yet could have a math credit Upper or Lower on his degree's transcript from aleks so dont get your hopes up too fast !! besides you got all sort of free math courses online, if some one really wants to learn there are plenty of resources and forums where they can ask questions (just google it) as far as the credit goes, Clep and dantes and even AP(even for home schooled kids) are way better and hassle free. also another thing is that regardless of the subject, the more standardized test you pass, the more you feel comfortable and you become familiar with the test-writers traps, stratagems and also test-stress and time management skills, smart skipping and smart guessing. those skills are invaluable and you cant get that from ALEKS ah one last thing if you get used to learn math with the aleks method, how are you going to do with other math or subjects not covered by ALEKS ? big trouble !!

Update: My credit showed up on ACE a little while back, but I waited to wait to see it on Excelsior transcript.

It is now on my Excelsior student status report.

The process was not really hard, just had to wait a bit is all. (The delay was probably due to the typical high number of graduation in May at Excelsior)


I received 3 credits in Natural Science/Math at Excelsior for Beginning Algebra.

That is great news. I also conformed that Intermediate Algebra and College Algebra would be accepted by TESC.

No proctored exams, however, Aleks keeps asking the same "problem type" over and over until you get it 100% three times in a row. Then after so many questions, you get an evaluation, which you must also pass, which will include this question, and some previously passed ones, otherwise that problem type is "back to square one", and the process repeats for it. T

This is not a cram and forget process, but rather slow and steady one.

This is not a walk in a park, but it is a different way of doing Math.

This counted as one of my 12 Natural/Math Science requirement at Excelsior

The process I used is explain in this post:
http://www.instantcertonline.com/for...html#post28442

That is correct, no proctored exam, but rather a repetitive process that insure you know every concept. This is not an exam to study for, but rather a process by which to learn and confirm learning every concept. It involves many many hours.

As far as pre calculus, Aleks does have an ACE evaluated course, PreCalculus (ALEK-0005). Please get approval from your advisor first though.

Quick thing, this statement is inaccurate, I have 3 credits in Math that counted as 3 of my 12 Math/Natural Science Credit requirement (thus leaving me with 9 to complete).

As a further update, I am now 44 hours into ALEKS: Introduction to Statistics, with 99 out of 116 topics mastered. This is yet another example of why ALEKS is not for everyone, and might not be the best use of time. It works great for me, as I want to learn the topic and really know them.

if you get used to learn math with the aleks method, how are you going to do with other math or subjects not covered by ALEKS ? big trouble !! [/quote]


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Jennifer
ALM, Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University, 2099 or sometime sooner
AA & BA, Social Sciences, Thomas Edison State College, 2008
AOS, Culinary Arts, Culinary Institute of America, 1990

How to do your own Unofficial Evaluation http://www.degreeforum.net/general-e...ighlight=alpha

InstantCert WORKS! http://www.degreeforum.net/general-e...g-members.html

"Brick walls are there for a reason....They’re there to stop the other people.” Randy Pausch

[quote=...they call them "books." [/QUOTE]

Too funny.

I'm using the Aleks now for Algebra. I think it's a good resource. Maybe a little time consuming but I need the extra help on this test. I checked out Statistics, looks a little long-winded but I think your right. If you go through all those steps the exam should be a breeze.

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Joe

CLEP
Princ. of Management 74, Intro to Sociology 65, US History I 72, Princ. of Marketing 67, Business Law I 66, Macroeconomics 68, Microeconomics 65, A&I Lit 74, Intro. Psych 66, SS&H 76. College Math 70. Humanities 60.
DSST
Princ. of Supervision 69, Statistics 63, MIS 65, Intro to Computers 64, Criminal Justice 57, Law Enforcement 66, Ethics 72, Princ. of Financial Accounting 67, Money and Banking 59, Environment 69, Lifespan & Dev 53, Fund. Counseling 61, Astronomy 63, Finance 63, Business Math 80, Technical Writing 61, Intro Business 65, Business law II 57.
ECE
Organizational Behavior B, Ethics A
Courses
Business Policy (A), Straighterline Managerial Accounting (A), Straighterline English (B) Straighterline Algebra (A), Opertations Management (A)