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Are AP Exams Getting Easier? - Education Next

As a result of these processes, annual studies of AP student performance in college consistently find that AP students with scores of 3 or ...

AP history exam rubric changes are setting students up for failure

While these updates are a welcome change to some students looking for shortcuts in class, I worry that these changes are too drastic and will ...

New Changes for AP Classes Give Wealthy Students an Advantage

They'll spend the semester learning concepts and engaging in the material instead of wasting 8 months memorizing terms and preparing for one AP exam in May.

Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids

It's hard to tell what explains the vastly different outcomes in some states. In California, where students on average stayed steady or only ...

Do AP Courses Make a Difference in STEM College and Career ...

We found students were between 1.6 and 2.4 times more likely to major in STEM if they took a STEM AP course in high school. AIR's researchers ...

The Great Recalibration of AP Exams - Marco Learning

This means that when the College Board recalibrates scores for an AP exam, tens or hundreds of thousands of students will be automatically granted college ...

Limited Access to AP Courses for Students in Smaller and More ...

We give policy makers and practitioners timely, independent resources to effect change in their communities. This work was supported by the Annie E. Casey ...

Discrepancies between AP grades, test scores raise concerns

For example, in one AP math class, approximately 25-30% of students receive a grade adjustment at the end of the year. A score of four on the ...

Why Are Black and Latino Students Shut Out of AP STEM Courses?

We found that Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds are being denied access to AP STEM opportunities.

Diminishing Credit: How Colleges and Universities Restrict the Use ...

With. AP credits eating into their tuition revenue, schools seem to be taking a different attitude toward the value of course work students do in high school.

Schools shift as evidence mounts that later start times improve teens ...

“Adolescent health is significantly improved by having later start times,” Wahlstrom said, with reductions in substance use, suicidality, and ...

How U.S. News Calculated the 2024 Best High Schools Rankings

Altogether, high schools where the largest proportion of 12th grade students in the 2021-2022 academic year took and earned qualifying scores on AP or IB exams ...

Balancing brain power: the need to prioritize mental health over AP ...

The discrepancies between these amounts can have a significant effect on students' mental health, which can influence stress levels, increase ...

Parents question College Board's use of student data

It charges that the College Board ignored warnings that giving AP tests online would discriminate against students with disabilities and those ...

Are AP courses worth the effort? An interview with ... - Stanford Report

And at some public schools, we were hearing that there was de facto tracking happening where advanced students were ending up on a track that ...

The AP Cheating Scandal & the Push for Digitization - Ivy Scholars

The given reason for this is that the AP tests have changed how they grade the tests, moving away from human judges and towards algorithmic ...

New Research Makes a Powerful Case for PBL - Edutopia

Researchers found that nearly half of students in project-based classrooms passed their AP tests, outperforming students in traditional ...

POLICY ANALYSIS - Education Commission of the States

Data on AP exam-taking from 2003 to 2013 suggest that this comprehensive approach has taken root, and has had a positive impact on student AP participation and ...

AP African American studies reworked after controversy - USA Today

And while it's proven wildly popular − 60 schools offered the course in its first pilot year, and about 13,000 students in nearly 700 schools ...

Prediction of differential performance between advanced placement ...

AP class grades are also highly relevant for students, given their impact on high school grades, but perhaps to a lesser extent than AP exam scores.