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Lucas, Michelle; Poulsen, Helen – Online Submission, 2020
This report summarizes the academic performance of emergent bilingual students, also known as English learners, for the 2019-2020 school year, in the Austin Independent School District. Results are presented from the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS), advanced placement (AP) course enrollment and exam performance,…
Descriptors: School Districts, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Academic Achievement
Eden, Max – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2020
More than half of Idaho's high school seniors are already enrolled in college. Dual enrollment programs, in which high school students enroll in college courses, have gained traction nationally in the past two decades, but Idaho's "Advanced Opportunities" initiative has been particularly successful. When students reach seventh grade,…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Advanced Placement, Tests
Debra D. Creel – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this Delphi study was to describe a consensus among selected high school guidance counselors about common barriers to advanced coursework opportunities experienced by high school students. The Delphi technique developed by the RAND Corporation is a method that combines multiple rounds of questions completed by a panel of experts in…
Descriptors: School Counselors, High Schools, Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement Programs
Cassandra M. D. Hart; Robert Linden; Brian A. Jacob; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
A common rationale for offering online courses in K-12 schools is that they allow students to take courses not offered at their schools; however, there has been little research on how online courses are used to expand curricular options when operating at scale. We assess the extent to which students and schools use online courses for this purpose…
Descriptors: High School Students, Online Courses, Guidelines, Distance Education
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Bunnell, Tristan – Africa Education Review, 2016
The Geneva-registered International Baccalaureate (IB) celebrated its 50th anniversary as an organisational entity in 2014, having first appeared in 1964 as the International Schools Examination Syndicate. In January 2015 the 5,000th programme had appeared at a school in Albania. The IB, now offering four programmes, has moved significantly over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Fischer, Christian; Fishman, Barry; Schoenebeck, Sarita Yardi – AERA Open, 2019
This mixed-methods observational study analyzes Advanced Placement (AP) Biology teachers' engagement in microblogging for professional learning. Data from three hashtag-based Twitter communities--#apbiochat, #apbioleaderacad, and #apbioleaderacademy (121 users; 2,253 tweets)--are analyzed using educational data mining, qualitative two-cycle…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Advanced Placement
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William Visco – English Journal, 2019
In this article, the author describes three strategies they have used to bolster interest and make use of popular culture to enhance readers' interactions with texts: pop culture pairings, musical connections, and multimodal projects. The author addresses the cultivation of pop culture awareness, the importance of multimodal pedagogy, the…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Learner Engagement, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Comprehension
Indiana Commission for Higher Education, 2022
Exacerbated by the pandemic, the decline in Indiana's college-going rate for recent high school graduates has accelerated. This presents stark challenges which must be addressed with urgency and thoughtfulness. Fewer Hoosiers are pursuing education or training after high school. The state's college-going rate fell from 59 percent for the high…
Descriptors: College Readiness, High School Graduates, Academic Degrees, Public Colleges
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Okura, Keitaro – Sociology of Education, 2022
Asian American students are frequently stereotyped to be hardworking and academically talented. To what extent are teacher appraisals of Asian students influenced by such racial stereotypes? This article investigates this question through a quantitative analysis of high school students from the Educational Longitudinal Study. I find that even when…
Descriptors: Race, Stereotypes, Asian American Students, High School Students
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Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky; Lock Morgan, Kari; Liu, Ying; Garland, Marshall W.; Rapaport, Amie; Hu, Alyssa; Hoepfner, Danial; Haderlein, Shira Korn – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Harnessing a cluster randomized controlled trial, we estimated the impact on students' advanced placement (AP) examination performance of a project-based learning (PBL) approach to AP compared with a lecture-based AP approach. Through PBL, teachers primarily play a facilitator role, while students work on complex tasks organized around central…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Student Projects, Active Learning, Tests
Patrick, Kayla; Davis, Jonathan C. W.; Socol, Allison Rose – Education Trust, 2022
For this report, The Education Trust teamed up with Equal Opportunity Schools to look at students' access to Advanced Placement (AP) courses in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The authors found that although many Black and Latino students aspire to go to college and are interested in STEM subjects, very few are actually enrolled…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Disproportionate Representation, Advanced Placement Programs
Addison, Kecia L. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2022
This memorandum provides information related to Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) course enrollment, exam participation, and exam performance during the 2020-2021 school year in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). In this memo, the results of 2021 students were compared with those of 2019 students. It is important…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Enrollment Trends, Tests, Academic Achievement
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Maloney, David – Physics Teacher, 2015
The conjunction of three events has encouraged me to devote significant time to thinking about the pedagogical framework in my introductory courses. The three events were: doing a workshop addressing the Advanced Placement restructuring of the Physics B course with a stronger focus on critical thinking, finding out that "The Physics…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Workshops, Advanced Placement, Physics
Texas Education Agency, 2019
This report presents Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examination participation and performance results in Texas public schools for the 2017-18 school year. Data are provided by student characteristics, including race/ethnicity; gender; and economic, at-risk, dyslexia, English learner, foster care, homeless, immigrant,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Test Results, Public Schools, Race
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Casadio, Ylenia – Education Research and Perspectives, 2021
After World War II there was a push to reinvigorate the economies and industries of Western Europe, and to find methods to avoid the outbreak of more wars in the region. As a result, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was founded in 1952 (European Coal and Steel Community, 2016) an important step towards the full European Union (EU), led…
Descriptors: War, Economic Development, Fuels, Metallurgy
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