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Sarah K. Mason; Matt Hancock; Izzy Thornton – Grantee Submission, 2024
Rural Mississippi schools often face challenges in providing equitable access to Advanced Placement (AP) courses, particularly in STEM fields. This lack of access limits opportunities for high-achieving students to pursue rigorous STEM coursework and related careers. The AP STEM program aims to improve access to AP STEM courses for high-achieving…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, STEM Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Access to Education
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Mould, Tom; DeLoach, Stephen B. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2017
While studies of predictive factors for success in honors have been increasingly creative and expansive on what these factors might include, they have rarely challenged the dominant, virtually monolithic definitions of success. The majority of studies measure success either by collegiate grade point averages (GPAs) or retention rates in honors,…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Honors Curriculum, Alternative Assessment
Dahlin, Michael; Tarasawa, Beth – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2013
In this follow-up to "Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students," the academic growth of 35,000 elementary and middle school students in 31 states, all of them high achievers within their own schools, were followed over a three-year period. Their achievement scores were matched with their associated…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Accountability, Academic Standards, Longitudinal Studies