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Anthony Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The gaps in education in America continue to march on at staggering rates. Gaps in academic achievement, college acceptance, standardized test scores, and access to resources continue to marginalize Black students in the United States compared to their white counterparts. Pittsburgh, PA, with the second-largest school district in Pennsylvania and…
Descriptors: African American Students, Achievement Gap, Access to Education, School Districts
Houston Independent School District, 2017
The Advanced Placement (AP) program represents a critical element in Houston Independent School District's (HISD's) efforts to inject rigor into the high school classrooms. Since 2009, the AP course offerings in HISD have been vastly expanded, with more campuses offering a wider selection of AP courses that exposes a larger percentage of the high…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students, Student Participation
Houston Independent School District, 2017
The Advanced Placement (AP) program represents a critical element in Houston Independent School District's (HISD's) efforts to inject rigor into the high school classrooms. Since 2009, the AP course offerings in HISD have been vastly expanded, with more campuses offering a wider selection of AP courses that exposes a larger percentage of the high…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students, Student Participation
Anna Espinoza – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the 84th Legislature's House Bill 505 expansion of dual credit in Texas in fall 2015, students became eligible to begin coursework as early as ninth grade. Allowing students to begin college earlier in their high school journey triggered questions about their college and career readiness during transition to postsecondary coursework, which…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, Advanced Placement, High School Students
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Bender, Geoff – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
This article presents the results of five open-ended surveys administered to two Advanced Placement classes in a primarily White high school in upstate New York. Surveys sought to explore how students make sense of the course diversity selection, Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," which was inserted into a primarily White textual…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English Literature, English Instruction, Power Structure
Daniel Robert Plonski – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this mixed methods action research was to determine if increased interactive Schoology-based modules could alter learner perceptions concerning the lack of meaningful learning (learner-instructor, learner-learner, learner-content) in the culture unit of instruction in an Advanced Placement Human Geography (APHG) classroom. A series…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Learning Experience, Grade 9, High School Students
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Metli, Akin; Özcan, Oguzhan – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
This study aims to explain the relationship between student performance in the International General Certificate Secondary Education (IGCSE) and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) as well as explore the predictors of the IBDP scores in languages, sciences, and mathematics. A purposive sample of 338 high school students was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Secondary Education, Educational Certificates
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Adiyaman, Hatice; Ozmanta, Zehra Keser – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
This research is a qualitative case study aiming at analyzing the effects of accreditation on school system elements. Accordingly, interviews were conducted with administrators and teachers at an IB-PYP accredited school. There are questions directed towards understanding the impacts of the accreditation on the elements of open system in the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Advanced Placement Programs, Elementary Schools, Educational Benefits
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Bahar, A. Kadir – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2021
Analyzing the test scores of more than 10,000,000 students who participated in the Advanced Placement (AP) math exams from 1997 to 2019, this study examined the direction and magnitude of the trend in gender disparity by race in participation in and top achievement on AP Calculus AB, Calculus BC, and Statistics exams. The results of this study…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Advanced Placement, Disproportionate Representation, Mathematics Achievement
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Gürkan, Burcu – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
The purpose of the study is to examine the positive and negative experiences of teachers through a model in the process of designing a transdisciplinary integrated curriculum within the framework of IB-PYP. The design of the study included a holistic, multiple-case approach. The study was carried out with 50 teachers, among which 7 (14%) are male…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Hollylynne S.; Harrison, Taylor – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
This study provides a glimpse into the professional learning, beliefs, and practices of high school teachers of Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics. Data are from a survey of 445 AP Statistics teachers in late 2018. Results indicate many AP Statistics teachers have taken several statistics courses and engage in professional development related to…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Advanced Placement, Statistics Education, High School Teachers
Steiger, Jessica; Fink, John; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
Research shows that earning college credit while in high school increases students' chances of going to college directly after high school and of earning a college credential. Research also makes clear, however, that access to early postsecondary opportunities is uneven, with lower rates of participation among students of color, those from…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disproportionate Representation, College Credits, Dual Enrollment
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Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Linden, Robert; Jacob, Brian; Loeb, Susanna – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
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
Patricia E. Merewether – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Systemic gaps across educational opportunities for students of color and students from economically marginalized communities continue to exist in educational contexts. As Gorski (2018) stated, public education is supposed to be the great equalizer. Yet, we can see that our meritocratic system is creating further divides between those who have…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Courses, Credits, High School Students
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Stoeckel, Marta R. – Physics Teacher, 2020
One of the many ways issues of underrepresentation appear in the physics classroom is female students frequently have a lower perception of their performance and ability than their male peers. Understanding how classroom experiences impact students' confidence, especially for underrepresented students, can provide an important guide to designing…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Females, Advanced Placement Programs
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