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Michael Gurlea; Colleen Fitzpatrick; Stephanie van Hover; Ariel Cornett – High School Journal, 2023
This case study explored how a teacher, Ms. Walter, and her students experienced a unit of study on market structures in an Advanced Placement (AP) Microeconomics course. We employed qualitative research methods, drawing on the work of Nuthall and Alton-Lee, to connect students' experiences of classroom instruction to their reasoning on an…
Descriptors: High School Students, Economics Education, Microeconomics, Multiple Choice Tests
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Kennedy, Peter; Walstad, William B. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1997
The consequences in terms of misclassifications of students that would occur by replacing the constructed-response portion of the Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in economics with more multiple-choice items were studied. The 1991 AP examinations in micro- and macroeconomics were used. Computer simulation found that a small but statistically…
Descriptors: Classification, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Simulation, Constructed Response