Authentic Project-Learning Experiences (APLEs) promote learners' transfer of their content knowledge and industry competencies to solve open-ended challenges in their career pathway or community. Learners:
Exercise agency by selecting an inquiry pathway and using their expertise to solve real-world problems.
Analyze authentic situations with industry professional guidance to design innovative solutions that produce relevant and community-connected outcomes.
Today's Cup O'Jo is an APLE ePractice for the Accounting Cycle that features Microsoft Excel, which generates individualized-accounting case studies. Excel automates the repetitive posting, so learners focus on accounting data analytics to determine the business's financial health featured in the case study. Today's Cup O'Jo APLE evaluates learners' achievement levels of industry competencies and standards as a competency-based assessment.
The Business Startup APLE features entrepreneurship and challenges learners to be bold and adventurous by applying their accounting expertise to start a business. Learners begin thinking about a business startup and progress to concentrating on accounting data analytics to determine their business's financial health. The Business Startup APLE evaluates learners' achievement levels of industry competencies and standards as a competency-based assessment.
