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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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Lucas Education Research, George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2021
This brief examines the findings of a study conducted by researchers at the University of Southern California examining a project-based approach to Advanced Placement courses. The randomized study found the proportion of students earning a credit-qualifying score on the AP test was 8 percentage points higher in the project-based version of the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs
Donovan, William – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2020
Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Boston is attempting a turnaround and has been for decades. In 2016, after having been designated a Level 4 school by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), a stamp that branded it "underperforming," school officials created a plan they began…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation
Plucker, Jonathan A.; Callahan, Carolyn M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
There is substantial evidence on the effectiveness of many forms of advanced education, especially various approaches to acceleration, ability grouping, and curricular innovations such as structured curriculum and enrichment. Nonetheless, additional research on the ways in which advanced education impacts the learning and lives of students across…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Program Effectiveness
Olton-Weber, Sophia; Hess, Robyn; Ritchotte, Jennifer A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2020
Gifted youth frequently experience perfectionism, which for some can affect their emotional well-being. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a 6-week mindfulness intervention for 42 middle school students who were identified as Gifted and Talented. Participants' levels of self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism, as well as their…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Expectation, Metacognition, Intervention
Marie Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Over the past 20 years there has been a major focus on increasing educational opportunities for African American students. As part of efforts to increase these opportunities, high schools across the country have focused initiatives on increasing the number of African American students enrolling in Advanced Placement (AP) courses. While the number…
Descriptors: African American Students, Advanced Placement Programs, Racial Differences, Teacher Attitudes
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Anna Rosefsky Saavedra; Ying Liu; Shira Korn Haderlein; Amie Rapaport; Marshall Garland; Danial Hoepfner; Kari Lock Morgan; Alyssa Hu – Online Submission, 2021
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of Knowledge in Action (KIA) project-based learning (PBL) approach to Advanced Placement (AP) on students' AP examination performance. This study used a randomized controlled trial, with school-level randomization within five large and predominantly urban U.S. school districts, to compare the AP…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Advanced Placement Programs, Units of Study
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