[Ohiogift] AP Exam Results

Anne Flick anneflick at yahoo.com
Sat May 11 13:11:43 EDT 2013


There  are a lot of inaccuracies and unfounded conclusions in those brackets.





>________________________________
> From: Will Fitzhugh <fitzhugh at tcr.org>
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>Education Week
>May 8, 2013, p. 11
>"Benefits of AP Program Questioned by Researcher" (excerpt)
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>“...Last year, nearly one in five high school graduates scored a 3 or higher (out of a possible 5) on an AP exam. That is up from 18.1 percent who passed in 2011 and 11.6 percent among the class of 2002. There were 954,070 public school students who took at least one AP exam last year, or 32.4 percent of 2012 graduates, up from 30.2 percent the year before and 18 percent of graduates in 2002, according to the most recent AP report from the College Board...”
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>[A score of 3 is passing on an AP exam. So, more than 80 percent of the students who took AP classes, with an AP curriculum, and AP-trained teachers, failed the exam in 2012, and, while that is an improvement over the88.4% who failed eleven years ago in 2002, it is barely regarded as news...Oh, and all 954,070 students no doubt paid for the exam.]
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