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College Board Celebrates 50 Years of AP Program, Introduces ChangeDespite its 50-year history of success and continuous growth, the Advanced Placement program could still use improvement, according to College Board officials. In its "Advanced Placement Report to the Nation," released last week, the College Board introduced changes in AP scoring intended to give educators and policymakers a better gauge of the extent to which their overall population is succeeding in advanced academics in high school. The new measure--the percentage of students in a total population (a school, a district, a state, or the nation) who had at least one AP experience resulting in an exam score of three or higher--shows the proportion of the overall population and not just the AP classroom. "We will be providing AP at its best, to enable more colleges to raise their own standards," said Trevor Packer, the program's executive director.
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"At 50, A Test is Still Changing" For the Adobe PDF version of the "AP Report to the Nation," click here |
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