The Grand Canyon Diploma
Upper Division Provider
The Advanced Placement Program®
ASU SkySong
October 4th, 2010
Sponsors: NCEE and CFA
David Moniz
Educational Manager, K-12 Services
The College Board
dmoniz@collegeboard.org
College Board’s Mission and Purpose
• The College Board is a not-for-profit membership organization whose
mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity.
• Founded in 1900, the organization is composed of more than 5,600
schools, colleges, universities and other educational organizations.
• Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their
parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,800 colleges through major programs
and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid,
enrollment, and teaching and learning.
• The College Board is committed to the principles of excellence and equity,
and that commitment is embodied in all of its programs, services, activities
and concerns.
Source: http://www.collegeboard.com/about/index.html
AP® Mission
The College Board’s Advanced Placement
Program® (AP) enables students to pursue
college-level studies while still in high school.
Through more than 30 college-level courses,
each culminating in a rigorous exam, AP
provides willing and academically prepared
students with the opportunity to earn college
credit and/or advanced placement.
AP Participation
• All 50 states offer AP
• Offered in 100 countries from Austria to
Zimbabwe
• 17,000 schools offer AP exams
• Over 3.4 million exams were taken in 2011
• Over 1.97 million students participated in AP
in 2011
Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com
Impact of AP on 5-Year College Graduation Rates
Student Group
AP Exam Grade of
3, 4, 5
AP Exam Grade of
1, 2
Took AP course, but
not exam
African-American
28% higher
22% higher
16% higher
Hispanic
28% higher
12% higher
10% higher
White
33% higher
22% higher
20% higher
Low-Income
26% higher
17% higher
12% higher
Not Low-Income
34% higher
23% higher
19% higher
Source: Chrys Dougherty, Lynn Mellor, and Shuling Jian, The Relationship Between Advanced Placement
and College Graduation (National Center for Educational Accountability, 2005)
Advanced Placement Program Pathway
October 4th, 2010
ASU SkySong / Scottsdale, AZ
David Moniz
Educational Manager, K-12 Services
dmoniz@collegeboard.org
College Admissions
Take the SAT®
College Visits
Take AP® Courses & Exams
AP Potential™
PSAT/NMSQT®
ReadiStep™
CollegeEd®
SpringBoard® ELA and Math,
Pre-AP Curriculum
6th Grade
Pre-AP and AP
Professional Development
Arizona growth in Advanced Placement
Arizona participation & performance in Advanced Placement
AP Participation in Arizona 2010-2011
• AP participation in Arizona increased by 7.2%
• 25,284 Arizona students took AP exams
• Minority students comprised over 46% of AP
test takers
• 24 freshman AP Scholars leads the nation
• Low-income students are the fastest growing
group of AP testers
• And we have just scratched the surface…
Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com
Arizona 2011 actual AP students
and AP Potential students
Took AP Exam in May
2011
8,000
7,000
6,000
Scored 3+ in May 2011
5,000
4,000
PSAT score indicates at
least 60% chance of
scoring 3+ if recruited
for AP Exam
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
AP English AP Calculus AP US
Lit.
AB
History
www.collegeboard.com/reports for roster of your students
Success Stories:
AP and Pre-AP Initiatives in AZ
Arizona DOE’s Advanced
Placement Incentive
Program (APIP) Grant
[2005 to 2008]
13 high schools were paired
with 14 feeder schools in the
APIP Grant.
They contributed to Arizona’s
significant growth in lowincome students preparing
for, and then participating in,
AP courses.
Supports included:
•Professional Development
•Vertical Teams
•Curriculum Alignment
•Administrator Support
•PSAT/NMSQT to identify
students with AP Potential
Arizona DOE’s Advanced
Placement Incentive Program
(APIP) Grant
[2005 to 2008]
Pre-AP Total Student
Participation
Pre-AP Low-Income
Student Participation
AP Total Student
Participation
AP Low-Income
Student Participation
Arizona DOE’s Advanced
Placement Incentive Program
(APIP) Grant
[2005 to 2008]
APIP Recipients: Low-income Student AP Participation and
Performance
# of AP Exams
# of AP Exams 3 or higher
All Arizona Low Income Students: AP Participation
NCEE:
Advanced Placement courses
Source:
Tough Choices or
Tough Times,
Executive
Summary
National Center for
Education and the
Economy (NCEE)
College Board offerings for grades 6 to 12
AP Courses aligned to NCEE
upper division requirements
(1) World. (2) U.S. (3) European
AP and Pre-AP
Professional
Development
SpringBoard
Pre-AP
Curriculum
Pre-AP
Professional
Development
AP History Courses
CollegeEd
Curriculum
AP History Exams in the US by Grade Level in 2010
AP Exams
Schools 9th grade 10th grade 11th grade 12th grade
US History
11,604
822
36,700
318,044
17,303
World History
4,548
10,717
128,898
15,452
6,923
European History
4,614
810
55,721
15,336
27,276
AP Program Overview
AP Courses
• Arts
•
Mathematics & Computer Science
– Art History, Music Theory, Studio Art
(drawing, 2-D, 3-D)
• English
– Language and Composition,
Literature and Composition
•
•
Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Computer
Science A, Statistics
Sciences
• History and Social Sciences
•
Biology, Chemistry, Environmental
Science, Physics B, Physics C: Electricity
and Magnetism, Physics C: Mechanics
– Comparative Government and
Politics, European History, Human • World Languages
Geography, Macroeconomics,
• Chinese Language and Culture, French
Microeconomics, Psychology,
Language, German Language, Japanese
United States Government and
Language and Culture, Latin: Vergil,
Politics, United States History, World
Spanish Language, Spanish Literature
History
Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/index.html
AP Scoring and Reporting
• Once scoring is complete, the multiple-choice and freeresponse scores are combined to form the composite scores.
• Final AP Exams scores are reported on a 5-point scale, which
represents the degree to which students should be considered
qualified to receive college credit or placement.
• AP Exam scores of:
– 5 are equivalent to grades of A in the corresponding college
course.
– 4 are equivalent to grades of A-, B+, and B in college
– 3 are equivalent to grades of B-, C+, and C in college.
• Grade reports usually available 6 to 8 weeks after the
administration
– Online grade reports available summer 2010 for schools
Who Participates in AP?
• 17,000+ secondary schools worldwide offer AP Exams
• More than 122,000 AP teachers worldwide are authorized to
teach AP courses
• In 2011, over 1.9 million students took over 3.4 million exams
• 5,000+ college faculty score AP Exams ensuring college-level
standards
• 3,600+ colleges receive AP Exam grades annually
Source: http://www.collegeboard.com/html/aprtn/?excmpid=CBF13-ED-1-aprtn
Key Benefits of AP
• AP courses establish a college-level standard in secondary
schools that is measured through a global assessment
designed and scored by college faculty.
• AP courses expose college-bound students to the amounts of
homework, study skills, and habits of mind essential for
success in college courses.
• AP provides leverage for aligning and strengthening the
grades 6-12 curriculum.
Key Benefits of AP
• Students who take AP Exams and score a 3 or higher typically
experience greater academic success and college graduation
rates than non-AP students.
• The AP course is typically the most rigorous curriculum
offered in secondary schools and is designated on the student
transcript.
• Because AP is widely used for college credit and/or placement,
it attracts motivated students eager to double major, or
engage in deeper, upper-division courses at college.
Advanced Placement International Diploma (APID)
• A globally recognized certificate for students who show outstanding academic
excellence through achievement on AP Exams across several disciplines
• Available to students attending secondary schools outside the United States
and to U.S. resident students applying to universities outside the country
• To earn an APID, students must earn grades of three or higher on at least five
AP Exams in the following content areas:]
1. Two AP Exams from two different languages selected from English
and/or world languages
2. One AP Exam designated as offering a global perspective: World
History , Human Geography, and Government and Politics:
Comparative
3. One exam from the sciences or mathematics content areas
More AP information online
• AP international recognition
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/intad.html
• AP International Diploma
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_intl.html
• AP Scholar Awards
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/scholarawards.html
• Alignment to Common Core State Standards
http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/cb/RR2011-8
Building / Expanding an AP
Program
Flexible and Modular Approach
• AP programs are already established in all types
of districts and schools across the nation and
world, serving a diverse student population
• Flexible delivery of instruction allows districts to
implement AP in the way that best works for
them
• Districts and schools can begin with one AP
course and then grow their programs based on
student interest and preparation, as well as
faculty capacity
Flexible and Modular Approach
• Independent study and online providers are
available if a school cannot run a course
• AP courses integrate well with existing
academic and physical environments to apply
course content in real-life settings
• Natural synergy with community educational
resources such as universities, research labs,
local/state government, and museums to
create robust programs
AP Curricula
• Each individual school develops its own syllabi for its
AP courses
• AP Course Audit, through which college faculty
review all AP teachers’ syllabi, ensures that AP
courses meet the curricular and classroom resource
requirements of a rigorous, comparable college
course
• College Board provides numerous resources and
professional development opportunities to help
teachers develop, structure, and pace their AP
courses
AP Potential™
• Identifies students likely to succeed in AP
– Online tool that uses PSAT/NMSQT® results
– Generates rosters of students likely to score a 3+ on a given AP Exam
– Free for all schools that administer the PSAT/NMSQT
• Based on proven research
– Based on research that found strong correlations between PSAT/NMSQT scores and AP
Exam results
– Sample included more than a million students
– Results available for 25 different AP Exams
• Increases access to AP
– Ensures that no student with the chance to succeed in AP is overlooked
– Enhances a school’s existing process for identifying students for AP courses
– Helps educators decide which AP courses to offer
AP Potential:
www.collegeboard.com/reports
College Board Support
• Regional office staff members serve schools
and districts in all fifty states
• Extensive web-based step-by-step planning
tools and information
• Free AP Coordinators’ Workshops
• Exam rebate to schools; fee reductions for
low-income students
• AP Central Electronic Message Board Forums
Resources to Build / Expand AP
professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/assessment/
– Offering, planning, and building an AP Program
apcentral.collegeboard.com
– AP Central resources for teachers (released items, sample
syllabi, scoring guides, textbook reviews, etc.)
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0908APREPORT.PDF
– National Governors Association report
– Raising Rigor, Getting Results
http://www.teamiddleschoolspanish.org/
– AP Spanish in Texas middle schools
www.broadeducation.org
– Click on “Resources for Districts”
– Expanding AP Access
AP Cost Considerations
• AP exam fee is $87
– Schools retain $8 of the fee for administrative costs
• A combination of federal and College Board fee
contributions reduce the cost of the AP Exam to $0 for lowincome students in Arizona
• There are no start-up fees for schools or teachers
• Professional development is strongly encouraged, but not
required, for AP teachers
• Each AP course syllabus is audited for free by college faculty
• Implementation expenses may include teacher professional
development, college texts, course supplies/equipment,
virtual course “seats” (if applicable)
Student and Teacher Preparation
Free AP Resources on AP Central
News or changes to the course and exam
Administration of the exam
Sample exam questions
Techniques and strategies for teaching the course:
objectives, structure, presentation methods, and
classroom activities
Outline of content (themes or topic outline) and skills
Sample textbooks
Sample syllabi
Subject-specific resources
College Board Standards for College Success
comprehensive, clear, challenging
• Provide a model set of comprehensive standards in ELA, math, and science
for middle school and high school courses that lead to AP, college and
workplace readiness
• Reflect 21st-century skills such as problem solving, critical and creative
thinking, collaboration, and media and technological literacy
• Articulate clear standards and objectives with supporting, in-depth
performance expectations to guide instruction and curriculum
development
• Provide teachers, districts and states with tools for increasing the rigor and
alignment of courses across grades 6-12 to college and workplace
readiness
• Assist teachers in designing lessons and classroom assessments
What is Pre-AP Professional Development
from the College Board?
1. Content-specific
classroom
strategies & tools
2. Vertical Teaming
strategies
3. Leadership
strategies
. . .that help
educators prepare
all students for the
challenges of
college-level work,
such as that found
in AP courses.
AP and Pre-AP Professional
Development
•
•
•
•
AP Summer Institutes (Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego)
AP and Pre-AP One- or Two-day Workshops
AP Online Workshops
Pre-AP Vertical Teaming and Strategies Workshops
Free
• Training to become an AP Reader
• Training to become an AP Consultant/Trainer
The Relationship of Pre-AP Materials and Professional Development to
Research-Based Strategies that Promote Rigor
Identifying similarities and differences
Summarizing & note taking frames
Nonlinguistic representations
Generating and testing hypotheses
Questions, cues, and advanced organizers
Setting assessment criteria and providing feedback
Cooperative learning formats
Source: Midcontinent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
Average Retention Rates by Instructional Format
After 24 Hours
5%
10%
20%
30%
50%
75%
90%
Lecture
Reading
Audio-Visual
Demonstration
Discussion Group
Practice By Doing
Teach Others
National Training Laboratory, Bethel, ME
Typical sequencing for Pre-AP Workshop Series
New to Pre-AP
New to Pre-AP
(no teams
established)
(teams established)
• Instructional
Leadership
• Instructional
Leadership
• Setting the
Cornerstones –
Interdisciplinary
Vertical Teams
Workshops
• Two-day Strategies
• One-day Strategies
[once teams established]
• Topics for AP Vertical
Teams in specific
subject areas
• Topics for AP Vertical
Teams in specific
subject area
• Two-day Strategies
• One-day Strategies
Established
Pre-AP
(assumes former 2day AP Vertical
Teams workshop)
• Building the
Foundations (Setting
the Cornerstones)
• Instructional
Leadership
• Two-day Strategies
• One-day Strategies
Ongoing
Activities
• AP Vertical Team
meetings
• Vertical Teams
Institutes
• AP Workshops
• AP Summer
Institutes
• AP Conferences
for Middle and High
School Teachers
SpringBoard®: The Official Pre-AP Program
in Math and English
• Based on the College Board Standards for College Success and
correlated to state standards
• More than 7,000 teachers and 600,000 students are currently
involved in SpringBoard courses
• 31 of the nation's 100 largest
school districts
• Small schools, charter schools,
and consortia
• Research-based; written by
teachers for teachers
Success stories, research reports and sample lessons:
http://www.collegeboard.com/springboardinfo
SpringBoard
Official Pre-AP Curriculum
Consumable Student Editions
– Engaging, collaborative, reflective, rigorous preparation for AP and college
Annotated Teacher Editions
– Essential questions, suggested strategies, differentiated instruction
Professional Development
– Initial institutes, advanced workshops, administrator workshops/toolkits,
cognitive coaching, curriculum mapping
Formative Assessments
– Embedded performance assessments, scoring guides, end-of-unit tests
SpringBoard Online and Community
– Web 2.0 community: share best practices & exemplars, view blogs & other
posts, ask questions of colleagues
SpringBoard® Components
 Consumable Student Editions: Culturally relevant, collaborative activities engage
students in critical thinking; each unit starts by providing students with a context for
learning by "unpacking" the skills & knowledge needed to successfully complete
Embedded Assessments.
 Annotated Teacher Editions: Correspond directly to Student Editions; teaching strategies
offer a menu of proven teaching methodologies to prepare students for AP courses.
 Professional Development: Administrators' workshops & toolkits; 4-day teacher
institutes (Year One); 2-day advanced teacher workshops (Years Two and Three);
customized services, such as cognitive coaching; online training modules.
 Formative Assessments: Embedded Assessments; unit assessments contain the College
Board’s high-quality test items with distractor rationales; Student & Teacher Reflections.
 SpringBoard® Online: Includes instructional resources, customizable online assessments
& reports, and correlations to state standards; home to the program's online
Professional Learning Community.
Find out more at www.collegeboard.com/springboardinfo.
SpringBoard:
The Official Pre-AP Program
AP Data to Inform Instruction
• AP Instructional Planning Report
– Allows teachers to see their students’
performance on specific content categories of the
AP Exam, in both multiple choice and free
response sections
– Available electronically to schools since 2010
• Released free response questions with scoring
commentary, actual samples, and grade
distributions posted on AP Central every year
AP Courses and Exams
• Provide rigorous, college-level opportunities
to students in high school
• Give schools a very flexible approach to AP
course delivery and implementation
• Reflect the practices and curricula of college
and university professors nationwide
• Serve as a capstone to the College Board’s
college readiness system of programs
Questions?
David Moniz
Educational Manager, K-12 Services
The College Board
dmoniz@collegeboard.org