The Advanced Placement Program of the College Entrance Examination Board provides a practical way for schools and colleges to create and use common definitions of college-level courses, which, when completed in secondary school, prepare students for advanced study at college. In each field committees of examiners write course descriptions and…

Authors feel the accelerated program has been a factor in attracting gifted young people into medicine. (Author)

The policies and procedures for granting advanced standing at Empire State College are based on three requirements. First, the learnings for which recognition is requested must be articulated. Second, the learnings must be pertinent to the student's goals and consistent with the educational goals of the college. Third, evidence must be generated…

Suggests that teachers on secondary and college levels should develop closer relationships and work together to promote the study of history at both levels. Presents a case study of a college (the State University of New York at Stony Brook) and a high school (Shoreham-Wading River High School) which have developed a successful working…

This paper briefly summarizes the validation and implementation of three CLEP examinations (humanities, social science/history, and natural sciences) that complement the placement and proficiency system of the University of Illinois. Three groups of juniors in fall 1971 who had completed specific distributional sequences that had satisfied general…

A selective list of interesting and successful collaboratives are presented. They are grouped under the following approaches: early identification and support, early instruction in the high schools, early instruction by the college, combining high school and college, working with teachers, and association activity. (MLW)

A followup study of Johns Hopkins University students who began college two or more years ahead of their age group examined their academic progress, ages at graduation, majors, course loads, grades, program length, and the progress of a special group of mIl0s identified through a study of mathematically precocious youth. (MSE)

The Center for the Advancement of Academically Talented Youth demonstrates the contribution that colleges can make to the education of students who are ready for a level and pacing of instruction not available in the schools. This Johns Hopkins University program is described. (Author/MLW)

Syracuse University's Project Advance, a collaborative program between the university and high schools that allows students an opportunity to earn college credit while they are in high school, is described. The program also provides teaching-oriented faculty development, and conducts research on effective instruction. (Author/MLW)

The Advanced Placement Program evolved from the School and College Study of Admission with Advanced Standing. Its progenitors sought to encourage and reward able and ambitious students, to focus on subject matter, to bring school and college teachers together, and to eliminate the lock-step in education. (Author/MLW)

The Advanced Placement Program is based on the premise that young people can complete college-level studies while in secondary schools. It is an instrument of cooperation that extends the educational opportunities available to students by giving secondary school college-level courses appropriate college credit and placement. Advanced Placement…

This study evaluates the effects of the Advanced Placement (AP) Program in the lives of students and investigates the validity of the Advanced Placement Examinations at participating colleges and universities. Nine of the colleges and universities that received the most AP candidates in 1982 were selected for the study. The transcripts of a large…

The issue of early admissions or high school-college articulation is examined. Following a historical analysis of early college, reasons for and drawbacks to such a change are discussed. The experience at Simon's Rock Early College between 1972 and 1976, when they instituted a four-year program beginning after tenth grade and ending with a B.A.…