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Jewett, Elizabeth C.; Chen, Rong – Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Background: To meet the growing demand for the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and remain competitive in the fields of science and technology over the next decade, the United States is expected to need more than 1 million additional STEM professionals. This would require an annual increase of 34% in undergraduate…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students, College Students
Sax, Linda J.; Newhouse, Kaitlin N. S.; Goode, Joanna; Nakajima, Tomoko M.; Skorodinsky, Max; Sendowski, Michelle – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
The Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (APCSP) course was introduced in 2016 to address long-standing gender and racial/ethnic disparities in the United States among students taking Advanced Placement Computer Science (APCS) in high school, as well as among those who pursued computing majors in college. Although APCSP has drawn a more…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Computer Science Education, Equal Education, High School Students
Kang, Chungseo; García Torres, Darlene – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2021
Using the National Center for Education Statistics 2002-2012 Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS) data set, this study examines the relation between college undermatching and bachelor's degree attainment, and whether the influences of undermatching on bachelor's degree attainment vary by race/ethnicity. Results revealed students who undermatched…
Descriptors: College Choice, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees, Time to Degree
Morgan, T. Lee; Zakhem, Diana; Cooper, Wendy Loloff – Education Sciences, 2018
Educators and policymakers are keenly aware of the need to prepare students to compete in an increasingly global society. It is widely accepted that a high school diploma is not sufficient and that secondary schools have a responsibility to prepare students to be college and career ready. This study examined participation in a rigorous secondary…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Secondary School Curriculum
Smith, Kara; Jagesic, Sanja; Wyatt, Jeff; Ewing, Maureen – College Board, 2018
Projections by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2012) point to a need for approximately one million more Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) professionals than the U.S. will be able to produce considering the current rate of STEM postsecondary degree completions (Executive Office of the President of…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, STEM Education, Student Participation, High School Students
Shaw, Emily J.; Marini, Jessica; Mattern, Krista D. – College Board, 2014
The Study evaluated the predictive validity of various operationalizations of AP® Exam and course information that could be used to make college admission decisions. The incremental validity of different AP variables, above and beyond traditional admission measures such as SAT® and high school grade point average (HSGPA), in predicting first-year…
Descriptors: College Admission, Advanced Placement Programs, Grade Point Average, Predictive Validity
Lewis, Traschell S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of selected Advanced Placement (AP) programs on the academic performance and college readiness of high school students. Specifically, the researcher was concerned with ascertaining the effectiveness of social science, math, science, English, music/art and language AP programs on the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Academic Achievement, College Readiness, High School Students
McKillip, Mary E. M.; Rawls, Anita – Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The authors sought to better understand the relationship between students participating in the Advanced Placement (AP) program and subsequent performance on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Focusing on students graduating from U.S. public high schools in 2010, the authors used propensity scores to match junior year AP examinees in 3 subjects to…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Standardized Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Scores
Fnu, Mihir – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The study investigates the relationship between ethnicity and performance in selected AP courses for years 2001, 2005, and 2010. Data was collected from College Board annual reports for all 51 states and for subject groups Mathematics, Sciences, and Languages. Results show the evidence that there is significant achievement gaps among male and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Gender Differences, Advanced Placement Programs, Courses
Texas Education Agency, 2011
This report reviews Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examination participation and performance in Texas during the 2009-10 school year. Campus-, district-, and state-level examination results for students in Texas public schools are presented, as well as state-level examination results for students in Texas public and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Standardized Tests, Public Schools, Private Schools
Ewing, Maureen; Camara, Wayne J.; Millsap, Roger E. – College Board, 2006
The purpose of this study is to reexamine the relationship between PSAT/NMSQT scores and AP Examination grades using more recent test data in order to obtain additional validation evidence for using the PSAT/NMSQT to identify AP students. PSAT/NMSQT data from October 2000 and October 2001 and AP data from May 2002 and May 2003 were analyzed. The…
Descriptors: Correlation, Scores, College Entrance Examinations, High School Students
Stricker, Lawrence J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
Steele and Aronson (1995) found that the performance of African-American subjects on test items portrayed as a problem-solving task, in a laboratory experiment, was adversely affected when they were asked about their ethnicity. This outcome was attributed to "stereotype threat". Performance was disrupted by the subjects' concerns about…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Test Items, Problem Solving