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Professional Development for the Advanced Placement® Human Geography Teacher: Present Practice and Prospects for Change
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Mitchell, Jerry T.; Hare, Phillip R. – Geography Teacher, 2018
The Advanced Placement® Human Geography (AP HG) course has shown tremendous growth since 2001, the first year students took the end-of-course exam. Slightly more than 3,000 students took the exam that year; the number exceeded 163,000 in 2015 (Lanegran and Zeigler 2016) and is expected to grow further still. The College Board describes the course…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Advanced Placement Programs, Human Geography, Geography Instruction
Implementing the Constructed Scaffold Model: Hands-On Activity Units for Advanced Placement Calculus
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Scott, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the present action research study is to describe a hands-on activity model, named the Constructed Scaffold Model (CSM), used in an Advanced Placement Calculus class in a southeastern United States suburban high school. Data were collected over an 8-week period during the spring 2017 semester. The teacher-researcher developed a…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Models, Program Implementation, Hands on Science
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science: 25 Years of Early College STEM Opportunities
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Sayler, Michael F. – Roeper Review, 2015
The University of North Texas's Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science began admitting students to its 2-year early college entrance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program in the fall of 1988. This program provided accelerated entry for top students in Texas in the areas of mathematics and science. Approximately 200…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Development, Career Academies
The Impact of Advanced Placement Incentive Programs. Education Policy Brief. Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 2010
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Holstead, Michael S.; Spradlin, Terry E.; McGillivray, Margaret E.; Burroughs, Nathan – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2010
In December of 2009, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels announced that the latest state revenue forecasts predict that the state of Indiana will spend $1.8 billion more than it receives in tax revenue collections through July 2011. Therefore, Governor Daniels announced that he will cut at least $300 million from K-12 education spending in the next…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Incentives, Advanced Placement Programs, Program Effectiveness
High School and College Partnerships: Credit-Based Transition Programs
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Fowler, Michael; Luna, Gaye – American Secondary Education, 2009
This article reviews history, models, and benefits of credit-based transition programs between high schools and institutions of higher education. The goal of these programs is to enable high school students to take college courses and earn college credit while still in high school, thereby easing the transition to college through a variety of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Transitional Programs, College School Cooperation, Advanced Placement Programs
The Enduring Effects of a United World College Education as Seen through a Graduate's Eyes
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Tsumagari, Maki Ito – Journal of Research in International Education, 2010
This article describes a study that examined evidence of the enduring effects of United World Colleges (UWC) education, arguably the only purely ideology-driven international education model. The study adopted an interpretive phenomenological analysis of an autoethnography by a UWC graduate. The study found that the graduate has incubated her own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Phenomenology, Ideology