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Conger, Dylan; Long, Mark C.; McGhee, Raymond, Jr. – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
To evaluate how Advanced Placement (AP) courses affect college-going, we randomly assigned the offer of enrollment into an AP science course to over 1,800 students in twenty-three schools that had not previously offered the course. We find no AP course effects on students' college entrance exam scores (SAT/ACT). As expected, AP course-takers are…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Enrollment Rate
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Marcus, Jon – Education Next, 2021
Test-optional and test-blind admissions policies accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic would appear to imperil College Board's SAT college-entrance exam, the rival ACT, and their respective parent organizations. This state of affairs follows years of complaints that the exams favor the affluent. And, in fact, both of the notoriously secretive…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Admission