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Download full textWyatt, 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
Direct linkFischer, Christian; Fishman, Barry; Levy, Abigail Jurist; Eisenkraft, Arthur; Dede, Christopher; Lawrenz, Frances; Jia, Yueming; Kook, Janna Fuccillo; Frumin, Kim; McCoy, Ayana – Urban Education, 2020
This empirical study analyzed data from 638 teachers and 11,800 students in low-socioeconomic status (SES) urban schools (and schools with urban characteristics) exploring associations of school, teacher, teaching, and professional development characteristics toward student performance on the revised Advanced Placement (AP) Biology and AP…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Urban Schools, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Schools
Godfrey, Kelly E.; Beard, Jonathan J. – College Board, 2016
The purpose of this study was to address Advanced Placement (AP)® policy-related questions from administrators at the University System of Georgia (USG) using current AP Exam records and student course performance at four institutions. Specifically, comparisons of sequent or subsequent course grades were made between AP and non-AP students. This…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Student Placement, School Policy, State Universities
Hagge, Sarah Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Mixed-format tests containing both multiple-choice and constructed-response items are widely used on educational tests. Such tests combine the broad content coverage and efficient scoring of multiple-choice items with the assessment of higher-order thinking skills thought to be provided by constructed-response items. However, the combination of…
Descriptors: Test Format, True Scores, Equated Scores, Psychometrics
Keng, Leslie; Dodd, Barbara G. – College Board, 2010
This study sought to compare the performance of students in the College Board Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) compared to non-AP students on a number of college outcome measures. Ten individual AP Exams were examined in this study of students in four entering classes (1998-2001) at the University of Texas at Austin. The four main groups of…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Academic Achievement, College Students, Outcome Measures
Fackler, John P. Jr. – J Chem Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Chemistry, College School Cooperation, College Science
Wainer, Howard; And Others – 1993
The relationship between the multiple-choice and free-response sections of the Computer Science and Chemistry tests of the College Board's Advanced Placement program was studied. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the free-response sections measure the same underlying proficiency as the multiple-choice sections for the most part. However,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Chemistry, Computer Science, High School Students
Peer reviewedThissen, David; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1994
Restricted factor analysis shows that the multiple-choice and free-response sections of the Computer Science and Chemistry Advanced Placement examinations (College Board) measure the same proficiencies for the most part. There is a small degree of multidimensionality because of local dependence among free-response items. (SLD)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Chemistry, Computer Science, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedModu, Christopher C.; Taft, Hessy L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1982
Compares performance of first-year general chemistry college students from 32 institutions with performance of Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry Candidates in 1978 to provide a concurrent validity measure of the multiple-choice section of the AP chemistry examination. Average AP candidates scored significantly higher than average college students.…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education
Wainer, Howard; And Others – 1991
When an examination consists, in whole or in part, of constructed response items, it is a common practice to allow the examinee to choose among a variety of questions. This procedure is usually adopted so that the limited number of items that can be completed in the allotted time does not unfairly affect the examinee. This results in the de facto…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Wang, Xiang Bo – 1996
It has been found that when examinees are allowed to choose a subset of constructed response (CR) items to answer on a test, they tend to choose differently and often perform lower on more popularly chosen items. The purpose of this study was to examine this finding. Using an experiment that incorporated a revised Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Students, Constructed Response, Curriculum
Lukhele, Robert; And Others – 1993
Analyses based on fitting item response models to data from the College Board's Advanced Placement exams in Chemistry and United States History indicated that the constructed-response portion of the tests yielded little information over and above that provided by the multiple-choice sections. These tests also allow examinees to select subsets of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement, Chemistry, Constructed Response
Mahoney, Susan S. – 1987
The University of Texas (UT) at Austin's credit by examination program is described. In 1985-86, credit by examination was offered in 55 subjects. Details were provided for each of 18 subject areas in which over 20 tests were administered: Biology; Chemistry; Chinese; Computer Science; Economics; Electrical Engineering; English; French; German;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement, Biology, Chemistry
