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Comparing Recent Organizing Templates for Test Content between ACS Exams in General Chemistry and AP Chemistry
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Holme, Thomas – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
Two different versions of "big ideas" rooted content maps have recently been published for general chemistry. As embodied in the content outline from the College Board, one of these maps is designed to guide curriculum development and testing for advanced placement (AP) chemistry. The Anchoring Concepts Content Map for general chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Advanced Placement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
A Discussion of Population Invariance
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Brennan, Robert L. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2008
The discussion here covers five articles that are linked in the sense that they all treat population invariance. This discussion of population invariance is a somewhat broader treatment of the subject than simply a discussion of these five articles. In particular, occasional reference is made to publications other than those in this issue. The…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Law Schools, Science Achievement, Achievement Tests
Advanced Placement English.
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Reising, R. W. (Bob) – Clearing House, 1994
Reports on the 1994 English Advanced Placement Reading, an event which brought together 750 readers to provide accurate, efficient, and comfortable scoring of over 173,000 exams. (SR)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, English, English Literature
Beyond Algebra II: States Try to Ease Transition Between School and College.
Jaschik, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
To find the students who need help, college officials are starting new testing programs, sharing more information with high-school teachers and administrators, and joining with high schools to sponsor special programs for students and teachers. Programs in Ohio, New Jersey, and Florida are described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Bound Students, College School Cooperation, High School Students
Development of Testing Procedures and Criterion Levels to Support an Articulation Program in a Community College Setting.
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Guster, Dennis – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1986
Reports on a project undertaken at St. Louis Community College (MO), during which a sample of technical high school students were tested to establish their knowledge/competency levels in selected data processing subjects in an effort to develop testing procedures and criterion levels for advanced placement. (AYC)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
What's Wrong at E.T.S.? Insider's View of Grading A.P. Government Essays.
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Miller, Jeff – College Teaching, 1999
A college faculty member who has graded Advanced Placement exam essays on U.S. government and politics, taken mostly by high school juniors and seniors, suggests that high school teachers and college faculty who assess the essays are not the best qualified persons to do so and that despite efforts to ensure consistency, the resulting scores are…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Instruction, Essays, Evaluation Criteria
Educational Testing Service Responds.
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McLauchlan, William – College Teaching, 1999
A faculty consultant to the Educational Testing Service for advanced placement (AP) test reading in U.S. government and politics responds to an article criticizing essay evaluation methods and criteria, finding in it a fundamental misunderstanding of the AP reading process and explaining why the essays are subject to less scrutiny for style,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Instruction, Essays, Evaluation Criteria