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Download full textHansen, Angela L. – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2005
What factors affect student success in AP courses? The College Board's Advanced Placement Program (AP) is widely recognized as the premier program for advanced placement and credit by examination. Originally established in 1955 as an opportunity for a few elite groups of students to take on college level work, the AP program has expanded to…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Credits, Advanced Placement Programs, Equivalency Tests
Peer reviewedSmith, Dwight L. – Journal of Higher Education, 1992
A study analyzed validity and reliability of grades and credits earned by college students in five departments, as indicators of student learning. Results indicate positive, strong correlation between faculty-assigned grades and student performance on external criterion measures. Validity of credits was not as clear. Strong and consistent evidence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
White, Rebecca Leigh, Ed. – Alabama Department of Education, 2005
"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama", as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…
Descriptors: Awards, Public Education, State Government, Academic Achievement
Whitaker, Urban – 1989
The monograph provides a systematic explication of the underlying standards and principles that have been developed to help adult learners articulate what they know and can do, to clarify their claims to creditable achievement, to help assessors improve the reliability of assessment, and to save assessor time. Ten academic and administrative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, Adult Learning, College Credits
Peer reviewedKoenig, Judith Anderson – Academic Medicine, 1992
A method for classifying students according to the breadth of their premedical preparation is presented, and medical school performances and career plans of students thus classified are compared. Grouping is according to undergraduate major, nonscience-to-science course hour ratio, and extracurricular involvement. The method is found useful for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Classification, College Credits
