AP Potential™ is a data-driven tool offered by the College Board that uses scores from the PSAT/NMSQT® to identify students who have the potential to succeed in Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) courses (College Board, 2007). Research showing a moderate-to-strong correlation between PSAT/NMSQT scores and AP Exam scores serves as the basis for this…

The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is a rigorous preuniversity course of study leading to examinations for highly motivated secondary school students between the ages of 16 and 19. The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) offers the diploma program for students throughout the world. Recognition of the diploma is slowly…

The State of Florida Department of Education provides pre-and-post-graduation data for public high school graduates throughout Florida. These data were used for the present report to produce data sets for all M-DCPS regular high schools and charter high schools graduating students in 2009 and 2010. Summary data for the district are also provided.…

When test-takers are offered a choice of essay questions, some questions may be harder than others. If the test includes a common portion taken by all test-takers, an adjustment to the scores is possible. Previously proposed adjustment procedures disregard the test-makers' efforts to create questions of equal difficulty; these procedures tend to…

A product of 3 years' experience in administering the Miami University Portfolio Writing Program, this handbook is designed to assist college faculty in administering a portfolio writing assessment program for incoming students (based on a collection of their best high school writing). The handbook's five chapters are: (1) Introduction: Portfolio…

The assessment/advisement/placement process utilized at Sacramento City College (SCC) includes a waiver system designed to meet the needs of those students who have demonstrated proficiency by means other than the usual assessment process. In fall 1983, 506 students were permitted to enroll in a variety of classes on the basis of having taken a…

This study investigated ways of making present and past results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and other data sources maximally useful as science indicators and to recommend possible changes in instrumentation and procedures that may enhance future NAEP surveys for these purposes. Primary emphasis was given to reviewing…

Students, if they elect to challenge both first-year nursing courses, must take two corresponding series of written and practical tests. Steps in devising the challenge exam system, maintaining high standards, testing format, general education requirements, and evaluation are topics discussed. (MW)

Report of a speech delivered by W. Eugene Ferguson in a Subject-Field Meeting, Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

FLEXIBLE PROGRESSION PROVIDES FOR A MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY IN THE WAY STUDENTS PROGRESS THROUGH THE SCHOOL PROGRAM. THE FIRST TYPE OF FLEXIBLE PROGRESSION, WITHIN THE ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL STRUCTURE, WAS USED IN THE PITTSBURGH SCHOOL SYSTEM. SIX SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS WHO EXCELLED IN THE USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WERE PERMITTED TO TAKE THE…

This report covers the period of April 1974 to September 1975 of a project to develop and implement a procedure to place candidates for registered nursing programs with previous experience in the appropriate level of the associate degree program. The five steps undertaken in meeting the project goal are described in the report: development of the…

To compare and evaluate the perception of cognitive, behavioral and affective activities in the classroom as determined by gifted students and their teachers, gifted students in two high schools were studied. Two programs, the Advanced Placement Program and the Cluster Grouping Program were selected for the study. It was concluded that the…

This document is a guide to the advanced placement program in calculus for grade 12 in the city schools in Warren, Ohio. The program covers analytic geometry, differential and integral calculus of algebraic functions, elementary transcendental functions, and applications of differentiation and integration. The philosophy and aims of the program…

In Spring 1967, the "Leadership Group of High School Teachers of Economics" in Orange County, California, expressed interest in developing an Advanced Placement Program (APP) in Economics. They were concerned that students from the stronger secondary school economics programs would find introductory college economics repetitive. This…

CORRESPONDENCE STUDY GUIDES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE PREPARED IN THE SUBJECTS OF MATHEMATICS, ENGLISH, AMERICAN HISTORY, AND EUROPEAN HISTORY FOR AN ADVANCED COLLEGE-PLACEMENT PROGRAM. INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM WAS MADE WIDELY AVAILABLE TO HIGH SCHOOLS IN NEBRASKA. BY THE FALL OF 1965, HOWEVER, IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THE NUMBER OF…