Advanced Placement Fights the Culture Wars

2019 ◽  
pp. 188-206
Author(s):  
Chester E. Finn ◽  
Andrew E. Scanlan
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
College Courses ◽  
School Students ◽  
College Credit ◽  
The One

This chapter addresses how the Advanced Placement (AP) program became entangled with both partisans and critics of “liberal education.” Conflicts between devotees of liberal education on the one hand and disciplinary specialization on the other—often referred to as “culture wars”—extend far beyond academe, but they are especially intense among university faculty, particularly in the humanities and social sciences—and in the field of education itself. For AP to remain credible with both high schools and colleges, it must balance these contending forces. If an AP class strays too far into the esoteric, subjective, and sometimes doctrinaire realms of many college courses in these fields, it forfeits its ability to provide high school students with a broad and reasonably objective “universal grounding.” However, if it remains a simple survey course, particularly the kind that—in the case of history—concentrates on factual knowledge of things like elections, presidents, and wars, it will no longer convince professors in that field that doing well in it justifies college credit.

DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS: SOME ACTUAL ISSUES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wirth ◽  
◽  
Boris Aberšek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Students ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The One ◽  
Senior High School Students

Discipline in class is essential. Without it the educational processes and teachings are difficult. In this manner curricula goals are almost impossible to achieve. There are and there always will be some kind of conflicts between teachers and students, but they should not evolve to become a problem. Teachers (especially elderly teachers) often express pessimism of contemporary students. They say that today's students have less knowledge, they do misbehave more often than previous generations. A study among students was conducted. It was trying to determine the rate of discipline in schools in Celje to see if these statements are true. The questionnaire to students of one primary and one high school in Celje, Slovenia were distributed. The answers from 234 students were received. On the one hand, it was found out that senior high school students have the worst level of discipline of all the grades tested. They themselves assess their class atmosphere as less disciplined. They report that teachers use a lot of time to calm the class down. All this is probably a factor in lower average grade that the senior high school students have. On the other hand, it was found out that teachers do not react to the disturbance or they are trying to be repressive. These are not the correct ways of dealing with discipline issues. Therefore, there are some recommended ways how teachers should react. Keywords: discipline in class, primary school, contemporary student, elderly teachers.

How college credit in high school impacts postsecondary course-taking: the role of AP exams

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Oded Gurantz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
School Students ◽  
College Credit ◽  
Using Data

This paper uses Advanced Placement (AP) exams to examine how receiving college credit in high school alters students' subsequent human capital investment. Using data from one large state, I link high school students to postsecondary transcripts from in-state, public institutions and estimate causal impacts using a regression discontinuity that compares students with essentially identical AP performance but who receive different offers of college credit. I find that female students who earn credit from STEM exams take higher-level STEM courses, significantly increasing their depth of study, with no observed impacts for males. As a result, the male-female gap in STEM courses taken shrinks by roughly one-third to two-thirds, depending on the outcome studied. Earning non-STEM AP credit increases overall coursework in non-STEM courses and increases the breadth of study across departments. Early credit policies help assist colleges to produce graduates whose skills aligns with commonly cited social or economic priorities, such as developing STEM graduates with stronger skills, particularly among traditionally underrepresented groups.

scholarly journals The Influences of Facebook on High School Students’ Pattern of Social Life: The Case of Harar City

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Dame Dereba Shoa ◽  
Gutema Imana Keno
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Medium ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
The One ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

In today’s world, it seems that social media and youngsters are destined for each other as both are young, fast paced and ever changing. It has become very challenging to cultivate and socialize youngsters with patterned social norms due to the influences of media like television and Facebook. Educators are challenged more seriously than ever before to teach youngster, as students are using Facebook at school and home. The aim of this study was to investigate the multifaceted influences of Facebook on youth's pattern of social life. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were employed to collect the data. Questionnaire, interview schedule and key informant interviews were data collection tools used to collect the quatitative and qualitative data respectively. The study founded that, Facebook is a social medium that discourages social bond in one way and encourages in the other way. By networking peers online, it enhances strong affiliation among Facebook friends while by letting them ignore people who are nearby, it debilitates face to face to face personal interactions. Anonymous Facebook users can meet in ‘chat rooms’ and discuss on topics of their choices with the person they do not know before and this type of electronic friendship and interaction may grow up and leads to virtual physical face-to-face contacts. Facebook is therefore, a platform for youths to discuss and interact on the issues of mutual curiosity which could enhance and promote synchronization of friends on the one side and inflammatory rhetoric conflicts on the other side, which implies the inevitable and multidimensional influences of Facebook on the youth’s social life

scholarly journals Enhancing Existential Thinking through Death Education: A Qualitative Study among High School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Testoni ◽  
Lorenza Palazzo ◽  
Ciro De Vincenzo ◽  
Michael Alexander Wieser
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Death Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The One ◽  
Harmful Effects

The censorship of death-related issues is widespread in contemporary Western culture because the boundary between death and life is substantially managed in medical areas. In the context of Italian educational initiatives, to remove this limitation, 215 high school students in Southern Italy were educated on death through conventional and informal lessons. The students answered a questionnaire with open questions to survey their emotional and reflective experiences. Their answers were qualitatively, thematically analysed to explore how the representation of death can follow a death education course, and if this experience can be managed without harmful effects. The students’ answers narrated how the course reduced their anxiety linked to these themes, on the one hand improving communication between peers by making it more authentic and empathic and, on the other, providing alternative perspectives on life. Indeed, the project offered an opportunity to discuss something strongly heartfelt but rarely faced, and the survey confirmed that the research objectives were fully achieved.

scholarly journals How College Students Use Advanced Placement Credit

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 925-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent J. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
College Credit ◽  
Time To Degree ◽  
College Credits ◽  
Fixed Effects Regression

Millions of high school students take Advanced Placement (AP) courses, which can provide college credit. Using nationally representative data, I identify a diverse set of higher education outcomes that are related to receipt of AP college credit. Institution fixed effects regression reduces bias associated with varying AP credit policies and student sorting across higher education. Results indicate college credits earned in high school are related to reduced time to degree, double majoring, and more advanced coursework. Bounding exercises suggest the time to degree and double major outcomes are not likely driven by bias from unobserved student characteristics. Policies used to support earning college credits while in high school appear to enhance undergraduate education and may accelerate time to degree.

scholarly journals Research on the Academic Benefits of the Advanced Placement Program

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401668299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell T. Warne
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
College Credit ◽  
College Board ◽  
Academic Benefits ◽  
New Methodologies

With more than 3 million participants per year, the Advanced Placement (AP) program is one of the most popular programs in the United States for exposing high-achieving high school students to advanced academic content. Sponsored by the College Board, the AP program provides a framework in which high school teachers can teach introductory college-level courses to high school students. These students then take one of 34 standardized tests at the end of the year, and students who score well on their course’s AP test can receive college credit from their university in which they later enroll. Despite the popularity of the AP program, remarkably little independent research has been conducted on the academic benefits of AP. In this article, I summarize the state of knowledge about the academic benefits of AP. Previous research and descriptive data indicate that AP students outperform non-AP students on a variety of academic measures, but many other aspects of the program are poorly understood, partially due to variability across AP subjects. These aspects include the causal impact of AP, which components of the program are most effective in boosting academic achievement, and how students engage with the AP program. I also conclude by making suggestions for researchers to use new methodologies to investigate new scientific and policy questions and new student populations to improve the educational scholars’ and practitioners’ understanding of the AP program.

Advanced Placement and Concurrent Enrollment Substitution Effects

2021 ◽  
pp. 1932202X2110049
Author(s):  
Grant Clayton
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Concurrent Enrollment ◽  
School Level ◽  
Substitution Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
College Credit ◽  
College Credits ◽  
College Selectivity ◽  
Level Data

Advanced placement (AP) and concurrent enrollment (CE) provide high school students with rigorous coursework and possible college credit. Theoretical modeling predicted students would substitute CE for AP courses conditional on their probability of earning university credit, passing AP tests, and college selectivity despite CE costing more than AP. In the current study, CE costs to families drop to zero and students should be expected to maximize substitution. This study uses multiple years of school-level data from Colorado, a state with a growing CE sector to test substitution effects. Using a school fixed-effect Poisson regression of the most commonly taken AP exams, results indicate limited evidence of widespread substitution. The continued preference for AP may increase costs to families and reduce potential college credits.

The Accounting Pilot and Bridge Project

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan S. Deines ◽  
Joseph Bittner ◽  
Glenda Eichman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
College Level ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Accounting Profession ◽  
School Students ◽  
College Credit ◽  
Baby Boomer Generation

ABSTRACT The accounting profession will experience a 50 percent decline in its ranks in the next ten years as accounting professionals from the Baby Boomer generation retire. To replace these professionals, the accounting profession will have to compete with law, medicine, engineering, and other professions that will also be replacing their “boomers.” During the period the boomers are retiring, the number of high school graduates is expected to decline, which suggests that the currently high accounting enrollments are unlikely to continue. If the accounting profession is to compete for the best and brightest students in the future, it is in its best interest to address structural impediments that exist in its educational supply chain. One significant structural impediment in the supply chain is the traditional high school accounting course. In 2000 the AICPA's Taylor Report stated high school accounting courses were a “systemic barrier” to entry into the profession for the very high school students the profession wants to attract (Taylor 2000). These courses have not changed substantially since the Taylor report was issued. The Accounting Pilot and Bridge Project (The Project) proposes to eliminate this barrier and has created a new college-level high school accounting course that provides college credit for those students who take the course and pass a rigorous qualifying examination. The Project is modeled after the College Board's highly successful Advanced Placement (AP) program. Once specific goals are achieved, The Project plans to submit a proposal to the College Board for it to adopt accounting as part of its Advanced Placement curriculum. After describing the research and initiatives that led to the creation of The Project, this paper discusses the goals of The Project, the process to have accounting added to the College Board's AP Curriculum, the curriculum used in the pilot course, the progress made to date, and what lies ahead.

scholarly journals STATE AND DEVELOPING OF DISCIPLINE AT LOVER SECONDARY SCHOOLS

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Alex Wirth ◽  
Boris Aberšek
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discipline Problems ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The One ◽  
Senior High School Students

Discipline is essential in class. Without it the educational process is difficult if not impossible. In this manner students and teachers will not meet curricula goals. There are and there will always be some kind of conflicts between teachers and students, but they should not evolve to become a problem that threatens achieving curricula aims. Teachers (especially elderly teachers) often express pessimism about contemporary students. They say that today's students have less knowledge and that they misbehave more often than previous generations. A research was conducted among students which tried to determine the rate of discipline in schools in Celje to see if these statements are true. Questionnaires were distributed to students of one primary and one high school in Celje, Slovenia. Answers were collected from 234 students. On the one hand, it was found out that senior high school students have the worst level of discipline of all the grades involved in the study. They themselves assess their class atmosphere as less disciplined. They report that teachers use a lot of time to calm the class down. All this is probably a factor in lower average mark that the senior high school students report to have. On the other hand, it was found out that teachers do not react to the disturbance or they are trying to be repressive. These are not the correct ways of dealing with discipline issues. Keywords: state of discipline, contemporary students, discipline problems.

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