The CEEB Advanced Placement Program has proved successful in offering high school students college level courses. (HS)

Discusses the special needs of gifted and creative students, the need for sensitive teachers, and questioning techniques which can be used in the secondary world history classroom. (RM)

Describes existential elements in three novels for adolescents: "The Crazy Horse Electric Game" and "Running Loose" by Chris Crutcher; and "God, the Universe and Hot Fudge Sundaes" by Norma Howe. Asserts that adolescent literature in an advanced-placement English class can connect the classics to the present. (MM)

Describes the technology education provisions of the Advanced Placement Program and the International Baccalaureate curriculum. Suggests strategies to move technology education into the college prep arena. (Author/JOW)

The future prosperity of the United States relies strongly upon the success of its higher education system. With an increasingly technological and competitive world economy, more jobs require the advanced skills and knowledge that higher education provides. Yet despite the significant efforts toward improving elementary and secondary education in…

Changes in the Advanced Placement calculus examinations are discussed and the questions used in the 1973 tests are reprinted. (SD)

Several major universities are not granting academic credit to students who pass the College Board's Advanced Placement Test in Computer Science. Issues related to this trend and to the teaching of computer science in high schools and in colleges are explored. (JN)

Describes a composition course that used the rhetoric of the printed media as a stimulus for student writing assignments. (FL)

Described is the Advanced Placement Program in Studio Art which encourages in-depth involvement by basing one-third of its requirements on the student's demonstrated ability to select and develop a project which makes greater demands than the usual assignment. This special project phase is described in depth. (KC)

Explores reasons why students take introductory physics courses at the university regardless of their Advanced Placement (AP) exam performance. Briefly describes the nature of AP physics, the examination format and reporting of scores, and the results of a survey of physics departments regarding their policies towards AP exam scores and placement…

A 1988 student survey suggests that honors classes more frequently resemble traditional tracking programs (based on IQ tests and prior performance) than do advanced placement (AP) classes. AP programs appear to be based on a meritocratic system; students who are adequately prepared and sufficiently motivated can accept the challenge and enroll.…

Discusses the format and results of the first Advanced Placement (AP) Government and Politics Examinations given by high schools in May 1987. Findings show the need for further training of AP teachers, improved instruction, and increased student interest in political science. Provides ordering information for two AP guides to assist political…

To help explain the relationship between board activities and mathematics education today, the creation and evolution of the College Board are described. The development of the Advanced Placement computer science course description and examination are noted particularly. (MNS)

Discusses issues involved in the standardization of curriculum for high school computer science education, including the choice of programing language. The new Advanced Placement (AP) Program in Computer Science is also discussed, including its use of Pascal and the implications of introducing such a test at this time. (EAO)

Probes objectives and realities of Advanced Placement European History examinations which provide high school students with an opportunity to demonstrate that they are qualified to pursue upper level history studies at college. (DB)