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Robert Schwarzhaupt; Krissy Zeiser; Kyle Neering; Sara Mitchell; Mengli Song – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Early Colleges (ECs) are a type of rapidly growing dual enrollment program proven to be successful in helping underrepresented students get a jumpstart on their postsecondary education. To date, the most rigorous evidence on the impact of ECs has come from two lottery-based natural experiments conducted by the SERVE Center (Edmunds et…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dual Enrollment, Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement

Jessica Brown; Jacqueline DeLisi; Lukas Winfield; Makoto Hanita; Anne Wang – Grantee Submission, 2025
The EIR-funded Work-Based Learning for Computer Science (WBL4CS) grant implemented a three-course, two-year Computer Science (CS) pathway in 20 Rhode Island High Schools. Evaluators from Education Development Center (EDC) employed a cluster randomized controlled trial to study the impact of integrating a Work-Based Learning course into the first…
Descriptors: Work Based Learning, Computer Science Education, High School Students, Career Pathways
Burnett, Alyson; Burkander, Paul – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
To expand participation in Advanced Placement (AP) courses, several District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) high schools have enacted a policy mandating that all students enroll in one or more AP courses. To promote quality instruction in AP courses, DCPS recommends regular teacher participation in the Advanced Placement Summer Institute (APSI)…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
Over the past decade the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has sought to expand participation in Advanced Placement (AP) courses in order to improve high school outcomes (attendance, achievement, and graduation) and longer-term outcomes (postsecondary enrollment and degree completion). DCPS wants to understand policies and recommendations…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
This document contains the appendixes for the full report, "Advanced Placement Participation, Staffing, and Staff Training in the District of Columbia Public Schools." The study examined students' AP exam taking and passing rates in schools that mandate AP course enrollment and in schools that do not, teacher participation in the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools
Katherine Shields; Alexander Jacobson; Lucy Hadley; Joseph Aubele; Makoto Hanita – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2025
This study examined the cost effectiveness of three early college programs in Rhode Island: dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and Advanced Placement (AP). Each program had a positive effect on participants' enrolling in college within one year of high school graduation, persisting to a second year of college, and starting at a four year…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students, College Enrollment
The Cost-Effectiveness of Providing Early College Programs in Rhode Island. Appendixes. REL 2025-012
Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2025
These are the appendixes for the report, "The Cost-Effectiveness of Providing Early College Programs in Rhode Island." Many states now offer high school students the opportunity to earn credit toward a high school diploma and a postsecondary degree simultaneously, with the aim of improving their college readiness and on-time college…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students, College Enrollment
Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky; Rapaport, Amie; Morgan, Kari Lock; Garland, Marshall W.; Liu, Ying; Hu, Alyssa; Hoepfner, Danial; Haderlein, Shira Korn – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
A team of researchers wanted to learn whether AP teachers using a project-based learning (PBL) approach could develop students' deep learning of knowledge and skills while preparing them for their AP exams. They used a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the Knowledge in Action (KIA) project-based curricula for AP courses. KIA students…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Research

Jacqueline DeLisi; Jessica Brown; Lukas Winfield; Makoto Hanita; Anne Wang – Grantee Submission, 2025
In 2019, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), in partnership with the University of Rhode Island (URI), launched the Work-Based Learning for Computer Science (WBL4CS) project through an Education Innovation Research (EIR) grant. The initiative aimed to expand access to computer science (CS) education for high school students,…
Descriptors: Work Based Learning, Computer Science Education, High School Students, Career Pathways
Steiger, Jessica; Fink, John; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
Research shows that earning college credit while in high school increases students' chances of going to college directly after high school and of earning a college credential. Research also makes clear, however, that access to early postsecondary opportunities is uneven, with lower rates of participation among students of color, those from…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disproportionate Representation, College Credits, Dual Enrollment
Wootten, Leeanne Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The International Baccalaureate Continuum offers both local elite and the expatriate populations around the world a transferable and transportable education package from pre-Kindergarten to grade 12. IBC full diploma graduates are positioned to be accepted into the best universities in the world. For critics, the IBC is Western elitist and for the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, 21st Century Skills, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Sönmez, Görsev; Gürkan, Burcu; Aksoy, Nuri Can – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2021
IBEC program is an international certificate program aiming at educating in-service teachers to be IB teachers by offering them opportunities to improve the quality of their classroom teaching, increase their access to teaching jobs worldwide, interact with leading academics for research and publishing consultation, demonstrate their deep…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs
Kolluri, Suneal – Review of Educational Research, 2018
The Advanced Placement (AP) program offers an opportunity for students to earn college credit and develop college-ready skills in high school. The curriculum was initially designed for "superior" students at exclusive private schools. Recently, however, the AP program has expanded to serve more students from marginalized backgrounds, and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Advanced Placement, Equal Education, Access to Education
Cshenal Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Closing the achievement gap is critical to the future of the nation, but more importantly it provides economically disadvantaged students a learning experience equivalent to their peers. Many districts attempt to battle low performance in Title I schools through special programs or addressing issues such as class size instead of taking into…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Elementary Education
Hasenkamp, Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This paper presents an action research study as part of a Dissertation in Practice. Based on observations from the classroom of the participant-researcher, Problem of Practice is described: an over-reliance on teacher-centered instructional methods and the mismatch of these instructional techniques to the pedagogy endorsed by the International…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Social Studies, Academic Achievement, Simulation