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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"college board"”.
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Advanced Placement Art History: Effective Teaching Strategies in the Art Beyond the European Content Area
… History (APAH) examination administered by the College Board. Three Advanced Placement Art History teachers participated in this study. Each teacher demonstrated successful and effective strategies in her APAH program. The criteria for selection required that each participant taught the class …
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Syllabus for Advanced Placement Biology
… ( TEA ) approved Campbell text Biology and the College Board's, Advanced Placement Biology Laboratory Manual. The syllabus is divided into major topics with outlined notes and includes laboratory exercises as recommended by the College Board. The AP biology course is intended to be equivalent to …
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Developing an AI Teacher Assistant: A Mixed Methods Study of Artificial Intelligence Scoring and Feedback Capabilities
… instructions and released materials from the College Board. The quantitative phase tested the ability of the model to reliably score 56 released essays with official College Board scores; the AI-generated scores were compared to official scores using Cohen’s kappa and quadratic weighted kappa. …
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Cashing in on Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in the United States
… standardized testing organizations such as the College Board violate norms of privacy in an effort to profit off of the sale of student data. I argue that the College Board’s operation of the Student Search Service, a service that not only provides students with marketing outreach from …
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Examining the influence of physics focused professional development on advanced placement physics teachers
… United States. Fourteen AP teachers who received College Board training were purposefully selected from high schools in the state. From this population, seven teachers who experienced additional physics-focused professional development beyond the College Board training (APD) were compared with the …
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An Examination of the Perceived College Leadership, Governance, and Decision Making from Governing Board Members at Selected Midwest Tribal Colleges
… as leaders; this is especially true for Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU).</p> <p>Very little information was available on the effectiveness of TCU governing boards. The purpose of this study was to examine leadership skills of TCU governing boards and to attribute those skills to …
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Advanced Placement Chemistry Curriculum
… both of the Chemistry department of Columbus College. Textbooks were reviewed and an outline of content was developed which was then used to determine concepts to be taught and student objectives. A listing of necessary laboratories and laboratory equipment was developed based on the …
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Hyperacceleration in secondary mathematics and student course taking patterns after middle school algebra
… Placement Calculus prior to twelfth grade (College Board, 1997; College Board, 2017). To assess the impact of early Algebra 1, the researcher considered transcript data for two cohorts of students in a large, suburban school district who took Algebra 1 in seventh or eighth grade. Statistical …
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Metacognitive skills and the adult developmental reader : issues in identification and instruction
… reading courses at Indiana Vocational Technical College on the Muncie campus and at the Anderson site. Students responded to a 20-item, multiple-choice questionnaire, the Adult Index of Reading Awareness (AIRA), specifically formulated by the author to measure levels of metacognition in adult …
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ICCB Program Review: Assisting Illinois Community Colleges to Improve Quality
… explored the process that the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) undertook to evaluate their statewide Program Review system and the modifications that were implemented based upon that evaluation. Data was collected through interviews with members of the Task Force that undertook the review …
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A thematic plan to promote college and career aspirations for low socioeconomic status students
… is called the predisposition stage (Brown v. the Board of Education, 1954; Perna & Swail, 2001; Walpole, 2003; Wilt, 2006). While much has been written on the subject of higher education of low SES student, Hossler and Gallagher (1987) discuss a three-phase college choice model that precludes the …
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The Perceptions and Practices of Members of Ontario College Boards Regarding Board Self Evaluation
… the practices and perspectives of Ontario college board members with respect to board self evaluation. A mixed methodology approach, combining quantitative and qualitative methods was employed. Document collection, a survey and interviews were the principal methods used to gather data. This …
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The Perceptions Of Secondary Education Guidance Counselors Regarding The Scholastic Aptitude Test And Its Relationship To College Admissions For Low Socioeconomic Students
… status (LES) students as a large impediment to college admission. The problem this transcendental phenomenological qualitative study explored was that the established SAT assessment methods and strategies used for secondary students are inundated with data relevant to only students who are in a …
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The complexity of reform efforts in science curriculum and instruction: a case study of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy chemistry teacher
… and less like the Advanced Placement—a College Board curriculum and examination. I conducted a critical narrative inquiry into aspects of his teacher agency in this highly contested sociocultural and sociopolitical context before, during, and after one year of curriculum change. I …
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Human Resources Programming and its Impact on Leadership within Governing Boards of Ontario Community Colleges
… experiences and preferences of Ontario community college board members and board secretaries to determine how specific programming related to governor recruitment, selection, training and performance evaluation assisted, or may contribute to, governance and leadership experiences during their term …
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Three essays on the influence of state policies on transfer enrollment at 4-year institutions
… concentration of research on community college to baccalaureate transfer pathway as well as on articulation policies. There was little attention to the influence of state appropriations and financial aid on transfer enrollments. In the second essay, I examine the relationship between …
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Prediction of college performance for freshmen at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
… methods were used to produce equations linking college performance with high school rank and College Board verbal and mathematical scores. Analyses were done for males and females, civilians and cadets. The three predictors accounted for only 34 percent of the variation in first year QCA among …
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Essential Personal Attributes, Skills and Abilities Needed by Aspiring Community College Presidents
The community college presidency is in critical state of evolution. Boggs (2003) stated that the rate of presidential retirements appears to be on the rise, with 79% of presidents planning to retire by 2012. Weisman and Vaughn (2007) in a 2006 survey found the number of presidents planning to …
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The relationship of socio-cultural contextual factors in schools with academic achievement in adolescents of high ability
… Exceptional Learners, and school-level data from College Board, 49 variables are described for 339 public high schools. A hierarchical linear regression was applied to 15 independent variables thought to be most relevant to the explanation of the variance among high schools. After review, a second …
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Elevating Black student voices: The underrepresentation of Black high school students in Advanced Placement courses
Boykin, Choya The College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) program was created in 1952 to accelerate academically gifted students’ enrollment and graduation from prestigious colleges and universities (Rothschild, 1999). Most Black students, with the same academic preparation as their White peers, …
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