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Institute for Behavioral Research in Creativity, Salt Lake City, UT. – 1992
This report presents results from Phase 2 of an ongoing Utah State Office of Education project titled "Preliminary Study of Proficiency Based Credit Testing in Utah Public Schools." Proficiency-based credit assessment (PBCA) means awarding secondary school academic credit to students considered proficient in the area without having taken…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement
Urahn, Susan – 1993
The Postsecondary Enrollment Options Program (PSEO) allows 11th and 12th grade public school students to attend Minnesota postsecondary institutions at state expense. Students receive high school credit for courses successfully completed and may apply for postsecondary credit for the same courses when entering college after high school graduation.…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Access to Education, Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement
Willingham, Warren W.; Morris, Margaret – 1986
The college careers of students who had participated in the Advanced Placement Program (AP) in secondary school were studied, based on extensive information on 4,814 students who participated in the Personal Qualities Project, a longitudinal study in nine colleges and universities. The project included information on 1,115 AP and 3,699 non-AP…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students
McLean, Angela; And Others – 1988
This curriculum guide describes in detail the Typing I and II curriculum at Fitch Senior High School, Groton, Connecticut, that can be taken for six hours of credit at Mohegan Community College. The articulated course was developed by a committee of teachers from both schools. For each typing course, the following information is provided: course…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives, College Credits

Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1987
Progress toward meeting the recommendations for quality improvements made by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) in 1981 in "The Need for Quality" is reviewed, and suggestions for state actions to improve undergraduate education in the SREB states are offered. High school graduation requirements in SREB states are identified,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advanced Placement Programs, College Admission, College Preparation
Galambos, Eva C. – Regional Spotlight, 1982
Approaches to cooperation between colleges and schools in serving students capable of advanced work are examined. Two major ways of serving bright high school students within their own schools in coordination with colleges are: programs developed by individual colleges with particular high schools, and the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP)…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement Programs, College Choice, College Credits
Bunch, Carol; Barrax, Joan – 1993
This three-year project at Shaw University (North Carolina), an historically black institution, was a dual enrollment project designed, first, to attract academically talented minority students to teacher education and, second, to motivate minority students to attend college. Over a three-year period, the college incentive program brought a total…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Black Colleges, Black Students

Hastings, William L.; Payne, Kenneth A. – Social Education, 1990
Investigates strength of national identity and degrees of democratic orientation among honors high school seniors taking advanced political science courses in 1986 in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. Finds West German students less tolerant of minority free speech, more fearful of consequences of dissent, and less politically…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
Aber, Joanne – 1996
This book, directed especially to individuals over age 30, takes a how-to approach to earning a college degree in the least amount of time for the least amount of money. The book explains how to use fast-track methods such as "testing out," which takes advantage of prior learning, and accredited shortcuts to earn an accelerated degree. The first…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Admission Criteria

Feder, Eric – 1992
Colorado educators interested in expanding curricular offerings in their elementary and secondary schools and providing staff development programs to their teachers and staff have many tools at their disposal. One of the most popular is the use of distance education and other telecommunications technologies to provide courses and individual…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Career Education, Communications Satellites, Computer Networks
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1988
This document is an outline of concepts and skills that should be taught at each elementary grade level and for each secondary course in science. This document should be used in planning K-12 science curricula and should serve as a guide for teaching process skills. Separate formats are used for the Elementary Program in Science and the Secondary…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Anatomy, Biology, Botany
National Commission on Excellence in Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1982
The role of college admissions standards in promoting excellence in American education and the role of colleges and high schools in helping students make the transition to postsecondary education were topics of a 1982 public hearing. Concerns of the hearing included: the relationship of admissions standards to declining enrollments and to…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Admission Criteria, Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education)
Florida State Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, Tallahassee. – 1988
Current Florida funding formulas for advanced placement, dual enrollment, and international baccalaureate instruction are examined, as well as suggested funding formulas to offset the cost of providing each kind of instruction. After the executive summary, the introduction discusses the commission charge and activities. Articulated acceleration…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Advanced Placement, College Entrance Examinations, Competency Based Education
Scorza, Margaret H.; And Others – 1988
Under Title VII funding, Project BEAMS (Bilingual Education for Achievement in Mathematics and Science) provided educational and support activities to 214 gifted students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in three Brooklyn high schools. The program gave students of Spanish, Haitian, Chinese, Korean, Middle Eastern, and various European…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Div. of Elementary and Secondary Instruction. – 1984
The curriculum guide for the Dade County public schools outlines the content and design of a sequential language arts program to serve as a basis for planning appropriate instruction within each school and for articulation within feeder patterns. The expectancies presented represent the core for each level in the student's language development.…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Business Education, Classroom Techniques, Course Content