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Lively, Michael T. – Music Educators Journal, 2017
Each year, many students take the Advanced Placement (AP) Music Theory Exam, and the majority of these students enroll in specialized AP music theory classes as part of the preparation process. For the teachers of these AP music theory classes, a number of challenges are presented by the difficulty and complexity of the exam subject material as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Music Education, Music Theory, Advanced Placement Programs
Wright, Katie; Buchanan, Emma – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
The development of "international mindedness" is an established aim of international education and has recently gained prominence in national school systems. Despite its increasing salience, it remains an ambiguous construct and an understudied aspect of schooling. It is implicated in globalized educational markets and attempts to…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education, International Education, Advanced Placement Programs
Spillane, James P.; Seelig, Jennifer L.; Blaushild, Naomi L.; Cohen, David K.; Peurach, Donald J. – Educational Policy, 2019
The institutional environment of U.S. school systems has changed considerably over a quarter century as standards and test-based accountability became central ideas in policy texts and discourses about improving education. We explore how U.S. school systems are managing in this changed environment by focusing on system leaders' sense-making about…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Administrator Role, Accountability
Spillane, James P.; Seelig, Jennifer L.; Blaushild, Naomi; Cohen, David K.; Peurach, Donald – Grantee Submission, 2019
The institutional environment of US school systems has changed considerably over a quarter century as standards and test-based accountability became central ideas in both policy texts and discourses about improving education. We explore how US school systems are managing in this changed environment by focusing on school system leaders'…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Administrator Role, Accountability
Cornehl, Krista – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Many students are passively engaged in mathematics content across the United States because they are in classrooms that use traditional instruction methods (i.e. lecture and guided practice). Calculus is a struggle for students because of the critical thinking, conceptual understanding, and problem solving required. Active learning has been shown…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Advanced Placement Programs, Calculus, Mathematics Achievement
Oded Gurantz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
This paper uses Advanced Placement (AP) exams to examine how receiving college credit in high school alters students' subsequent human capital investment. Using data from one large state, I link high school students to postsecondary transcripts from in-state, public institutions and estimate causal impacts using a regression discontinuity that…
Descriptors: College Credits, High School Students, Student Behavior, Course Selection (Students)
Sperandio, Jill; Kong, Peggy A. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
This article explored the effects of external agency on the establishment of professional learning communities (PLCs). The research was undertaken in the context of schools that have chosen to adopt the Primary Years Programme (PYP) of the International Baccalaureate (IB) worldwide. The study employed a two-stage qualitative sequential design…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Advanced Placement Programs, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Outhwaite, Deborah – Management in Education, 2018
This article analyses the flow-line around the methodology used inside an educational research process that was originally established to examine the expansion of the International Baccalaureate's Diploma Programme (IBDP) in England. This article analyses the research question, then assesses the research focus, aims and objectives. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Research Methodology, Educational Research
Parker, Walter C. – Social Education, 2018
When projects are the spine of a course, they are systematically sequenced one after the other, and they do the heavy lifting of the course. They teach its core content and skills. The author has been testing this model of course design for several years, aiming for experiential learning that is tied to deep rather than superficial learning of…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Experiential Learning, Active Learning, Sequential Learning
Lo, Jane C. – Social Studies, 2018
This article reports on a study that asks how might an elections simulation influence students with strong polarizing political beliefs? The elections simulation asks students to take on roles as candidate teams, political party leaders, interest groups, and media outlets in a mock presidential election. Students not only learn about elections but…
Descriptors: High School Students, Advanced Placement Programs, United States Government (Course), Civics
Drinkwater, Andrew; Lougheed, Patrick; Jamieson, Lynne – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2018
The Advanced Placement (AP) program provides the opportunity for high school students to enrol in advanced level coursework in a number of subjects, and potentially earn college or university transfer credit. AP is owned, created, and administered by the nonprofit College Board, and many post-secondary institutions provide transfer credit or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Placement, Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs
Edmunds, Julie A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Early colleges are intended to serve students from populations typically underrepresented in college and to prepare those students with the academic skills and dispositions to succeed in college. Another important attribute of early colleges is that they help students earn college credit during their high school years. Many such early colleges are…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, College Readiness, Educational Opportunities, Student Experience
Murphy, Alexander B.; Hare, Phillip R. – Journal of Geography, 2016
AP Human Geography students need to develop an understanding of what it means to examine the world around them from a geographic perspective. Focusing attention on geography's concern with spatial relationships, place characteristics, and geographic context helps student appreciate the nature of the discipline and the insights it offers. These…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Human Geography, Advanced Placement Programs, Secondary Education
Lew, Shim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Multi/bilingual education has been found to have the potential to provide more equitable education for linguistic minority students; nevertheless, these students have not fully benefitted from it due to unequal power dynamics and English-dominant language ideologies. While bilingual programmes in secondary schools remain extremely rare in the US,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multicultural Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Language Minorities
Resnik, Julia – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
Since the 1980s, education in Canada has been through a process that led to school choice, targeting the improvement of students' performance through school competition. These policies fostering an education quasi-market became an ideal framework for the expansion of IB schools. Since the Diploma Programme of the International Baccalaureate (IBDP)…
Descriptors: Competition, Advanced Placement Programs, School Districts, International Education