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Wyatt, Jeff; Jagesic, Sanja – College Board, 2020
The Advanced Placement® Program (AP®) offers high school students the opportunity to take rigorous coursework in high school and receive college credit for AP Exam scores that meet or exceed the requirements of their attending institution. Students receiving AP credit are typically exempted from an introductory-level course or series of courses…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses
Randall, David – National Association of Scholars, 2020
Since 2014 the College Board has continued to revise and develop the Advanced Placement European, United States, and World History examinations. It keeps getting in trouble. Many critics have excoriated the College Board for teaching history grossly politicized to the left--history without the history of freedom, history that teaches hatred of…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, History Instruction, World History, Social Bias
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Maddock, David R.; Torres, Leah C. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
The School District of Osceola County, Florida, invests heavily in the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, and as such, an evaluation of effects was conducted with a sample of 10 middle schools (12,325 students) and 7 high schools (18,886 students). Propensity matching was used to determine practical effects. Providing…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, High Schools, Program Effectiveness, Elective Courses
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Bunnell, Tristan – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
The well-established yet under-theorised body of 'Traditional International Schools' warrant much greater sociological analysis and inquiry as 'elite' educational institutions. This paper uses Basil Bernstein's "Sociology of the School" to discuss the 'expressive culture' of such schools, representing an idealised model of conduct,…
Descriptors: Advantaged, International Schools, Ceremonies, Values Education
Addison, Kecia L. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2021
This memorandum provides information pertinent to the participation and performance of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations for 2020 graduates in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). In 2020, 66.6 percent of MCPS graduates took one or more AP exams, a rate that was 20.8 and 28.3 percentage points higher…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Achievement Tests, Public Schools, High School Graduates
Baima, Ramona A. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The problem under examination is the course success of High School students in Face-to Face and Blended classroom environments. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the participation and performances of Face-to-Face and Blended high school students in different classes. Students' achievement and participation in Face-to-Face and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Conventional Instruction, Blended Learning
Willcox, Abby – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the academic performance of entering college students in their first enrolled college English course by comparing students who entered with prior college English coursework earned through Dual Enrollment, with prior college English coursework earned through another accelerated mechanism such as AP or IB,…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education), English Instruction
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2018
States often use summative assessments as a measure to determine students' readiness for college and career tracks. Some states administer the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) or Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments to measure high school student performance on college and…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Assessment, State Standards
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Phelps, Richard P. – Online Submission, 2018
The century-old College Entrance Examination Board (College Board) sponsors, develops, and administers standardized testing programs, most famously the "SAT suite of tests," which includes the SAT college admission test and the "pre-SAT," or PSAT, and the more than thirty Advanced- Placement (AP) courses and exams that…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Readiness, Standardized Tests, Educational Finance
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Atay, Eylem; Saraçoglu, Semra – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2022
Making use of the methodological framework of conversation analysis, the present study aims to investigate story-based classroom discourse with young learners of English in an EFL context. The data were collected from a private IB school following the Primary Years Programme (PYP) curriculum. The participants were 24 young learners who were under…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Wang, Danping; Li, Danni – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study explores one teacher's forays into multiliteracies practices and multimodal pedagogies in teaching a language other than English in an international school in Hong Kong. Using the Action Learning Circle as a guiding framework, this study analysed a Chinese language teacher's one-year self-initiated exploration of multiliteracies and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies, International Schools, Multimedia Instruction
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Teresa M. Ober; Maxwell R. Hong; Matthew F. Carter; Alex S. Brodersen; Daniella Rebouças-Ju; Cheng Liu; Ying Cheng – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
We examined whether students were accurate in predicting their test performance in both low-stakes and high-stakes testing contexts. The sample comprised U.S. high school students enrolled in an advanced placement (AP) statistics course during the 2017-2018 academic year (N = 209; M[subscript age] = 16.6 years). We found that even two months…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Attitudes, High Stakes Tests
Elizabeth Shaunessy-Dedrick; Shannon M. Suldo; Lindsey O'Brennan; Robert Dedrick; Janise Parker; John Ferron; Letty DiLeo – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2022
Students report experiencing elevated levels of academic stress while in Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBD) classes. In response, we developed a classwide, preventative coping and connectedness curriculum, which consists of 12 50-minute modules for 9th-grade students enrolled in accelerated coursework. In this…
Descriptors: Coping, Acceleration (Education), Prevention, Stress Variables
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Beach, Paul; Zvoch, Keith; Thier, Michael – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This study employed hierarchical piecewise growth modeling and two interrupted time series models to examine the effect of introducing an Advanced Placement (AP) school accountability incentive on AP access in Pennsylvania. Specifically, we examined whether adoption of an advanced course access accountability indicator was associated with an…
Descriptors: Accountability, Incentives, Advanced Placement Programs, Access to Education
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Mack, Lori C.; Halic, Olivia; Burd, Emma – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019
The Career-related Programme (CP) is an innovative education programme by the International Baccalaureate (IB). Designed to promote college and career readiness equally in the last two years of high school, the CP combines rigorous university preparatory coursework with targeted career-related studies. This study examines the patterns of higher…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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