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NEWMARK, MAXIM; AND OTHERS – 1967
A PROGRAM OF CURRICULUM REVISION HAS RESULTED IN A CURRICULUM GUIDE WHICH DELINEATES THE AIMS, TECHNIQUES, CONTENT, AND SCOPE OF GERMAN INSTRUCTION AT EACH LEVEL OF A 4-LEVEL SEQUENCE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK CITY. A MODIFIED AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH IS STRESSED AND SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES ARE SUGGESTED FOR TEACHING LISTENING, SPEAKING,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Course Content
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1980
Information on 1980 Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and characteristics of Maryland college-bound seniors, along with trends for 1974-80, are considered. Numbers of Maryland high school graduates taking the test, the race and sex of test-takers, SAT scores for Maryland and the United States for 1972-80, and the Maryland mean score on the SAT…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Advanced Placement, Aptitude Tests, College Bound Students
Lambert, Leo M.; And Others – Engineering Education, 1987
Describes Syracuse University's Project Adventure (SUPA), a cooperative arrangement between the university and 80 school districts in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, and Michigan, which is designed to give talented high school seniors the opportunity to enroll in university freshman courses in several subject areas, including computer…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, College School Cooperation, College Science, Computer Literacy
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2005
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Teacher Excellence for All Children: Senior Democrat Offers Legislation Featuring Teacher Incentives and Induction…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Incentives, Faculty Mobility, Public Education
Hughes, Katherine L.; Karp, Melinda Mechur; Fermin, Baranda J.; Bailey, Thomas R. – US Department of Education, 2005
This report examines the ways that credit-based transition programs (CBTPs) may help middle- and low-achieving students enter and succeed in college. It highlights promising practices used by CBTPs to help students who might have been considered noncollege-bound prepare for college credit course work. The report also discusses the challenges that…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Case Studies, Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement Programs
Idaho State Dept. of Education. Special Education Section. – 1999
This manual is designed to help Idaho school districts establish or improve programs for gifted and talented (G/T) high school students. It describes specific program options and administrative issues relating to gifted education. Chapter 1, "Starting and Administering a G/T High School Program," answers common questions about G/T high…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Creative Thinking, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Maucieri, Lawrence; Gernand, Renee; Patelis, Thanos – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
The Guidance Services and Research and Development Departments of the College Board coordinated an investigation of the results of a national high school survey. This survey, administered in 2000, follows a similar, large-scale survey of high schools in 1993 by the College Board. The current research report is designed to provide the reader with…
Descriptors: National Surveys, High Schools, High School Students, Trend Analysis
College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
The instructional schedule does affect student grades on the four AP Examinations in this study after they have been adjusted for group differences in student ability. The results from this study generally suggest that students, on average, obtain higher AP grades when instruction is given over an entire year rather than in a semesterized block…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Advanced Placement Programs, Academic Achievement, Statistical Analysis
College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
Teachers and administrators were surveyed to determine the extent to which AP Vertical Teams for English were implemented in schools. Results indicate that even though the goals of the AP Vertical Teams were only partially realized, there was some positive impact on student exposure to Pre-AP instruction and AP courses and student performance on…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Program Implementation, Teacher Surveys, Administrator Surveys
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Worthy, Ward – Chemical and Engineering News, 1988
Describes a system where advanced placement courses are offered to rural secondary schools via satellite and microcomputer links with Oklahoma State University. Emphasizes the AP chemistry curriculum and explores testing and laboratory difficulties related to satellite teaching. (ML)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Chemistry, College Science, Course Content
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Useem, Elizabeth L. – American Journal of Education, 1992
Examines the ways in which school-level policies and procedures influence students' probabilities of being placed in the accelerated track in mathematics in middle school and high school. Data from interviews with 52 school administrators show that substantial variations exist among districts in student opportunities for the accelerated…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Acceleration (Education), Administrators, Advanced Placement
Bridgeman, Brent; Lewis, Charles – 1991
Essay and multiple-choice scores from Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in American History, European History, English Language and Composition, and Biology were matched with freshman grades in a sample of 32 colleges. Multiple-choice scores from the American History and Biology examinations were superior to essays for predicting overall grade…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Biology, College Freshmen, English
Fehn, Bruce – 1997
This study sought to discern the extent to which a sample of talented math and science students displayed domain-relevant skills possessed by those expertly trained in history. Subjects' experiences varied in terms of their exposure to primary source materials. The students were presented with five different kinds of documents related to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, Critical Thinking, Data Interpretation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
The purpose of this hearing was to examine the status of the Star Schools program, a federal program enacted by Congress in 1987 that enables students to be linked together via satellite or cable TV hookup with teachers in different parts of the country. Star Schools are a network of distance education programs that link remote classes of students…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Cable Television, Communications Satellites, Computer Networks
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Policy Information Center. – 1993
Performance assessment, constructed-response, and authentic assessment are topics of current interest in educational testing and reform. This workbook presents the following articles on educational assessment to highlight work being done in this area: (1) "Aquarium Problem and Teacher Guidelines: New Standards Project" (University of…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Cognitive Tests, Constructed Response, Educational Assessment
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