1. Joint Elementary and High School Counselors’ Articulation Meeting
Advanced Placement
Joint Elementary and High School
Counselors’ Articulation Meeting
Mark Klimesh
Director of Advanced Placement
Teaching + Learning
Friday, January 28, 2011

2. What is Advanced Placement?
AP courses are modeled after and correspond to courses offered at colleges and universities.
Thirty-four courses are available to students.
Students may earn college credit while in high school with a qualifying AP exam score of 3, 4 or 5.
College Board creates and administers the AP course. (College Board also administers the SAT and PSAT.)
1,845,000 students worldwide took an AP class in 2010 with 3,213,225 exams taken.

3. AP Course Offerings Art History French Language
Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
Biology
German Language
Physics C: Mechanics
Calculus AB
Government and Politics: Comparative
Psychology
Calculus BC
Government and Politics: United States
Spanish Language
Chemistry
Human Geography
Spanish Literature
Chinese Language and Culture
Japanese Language and Culture
Statistics
Computer Science A
Latin: Vergil
Studio Art: 2-D Design
English Language and Composition
Macroeconomics
Studio Art: 3-D Design
English Literature and Composition
Microeconomics
Studio Art: Drawing
Environmental Science
Music Theory
United States History
European History
Physics B
World History

4. Student Enrollment
Number of students enrolled and exams taken is increasing…
Year
AP Courses
# of Exams
%of 3+ scores
Enrollment
2004
5,934
8,433
2005
6,682
9,645
2006
8874
12,653
2007
11,137
15,682
2008
12,464
17,869
31%
2009
12,791
18,553
33%
2010
14,208
19,909
35%

5. High School Coursework as Indicator of College Success
AP courses provide a more rigorous curriculum and additional Grade Point Average (GPA) points, which are used to calculate class rank.
Higher expectations are placed on AP students, and they have access to college-level academic texts.
AP courses provide students a college-oriented social network; focused, post-secondary support for college; and the confidence of a proven record of success at the university level.
Roderick, Nagaoka, Allensworth (2006)

6. Case for Opening Doors to Advanced Placement
By 2014, nearly two-thirds of jobs will require at least some college; currently, only 25 percent of high school graduates earn a bachelor’s degree in six years.
Source: Fifth Annual AP Report to the Nation

7. College Eligible, Not College Ready
Approximately 70% of all students in public high schools graduate, but only 32% of all students leave high school qualified to attend four-year colleges.
“College ready” can be defined as the level of preparation a student needs to enroll and succeed—without remediation—in a credit-bearing general education course.
College readiness by ethnic group:
African American 20%
American Indian 14%
Asian American %
Hispanic 16%
White 37%
Source: Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States, 9/03, Funded: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Jay P. Greene, Ph.D.; Greg Forster, Ph.D., Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States, 9/ 03, Funded: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Jay P. Greene, Ph.D.; Greg Forster, Ph.D., Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
This measure is based on three variables: high school graduation rate, HS transcript (four years of English, three years of math, and two years each of natural science, social science, and foreign language), and NAEP Reading score of 265.

8. 4-Year Graduation Rates
Time to Degree:
4-Year Graduation Rates
Students who scored a 2 or higher on an AP exam were more likely than other students to earn a bachelor’s degree within 4 years.
Source: Hargrove, Godin, and Dodd
Students who participate in either AP or dual enrollment are more likely than other students to complete a bachelor’s degree within 4-years. However, AP score appears to be related time to degree – the higher a student scores on the AP exam, the more likely he/she is to earn a bachelor’s degree within 4-years. While students who participate in dual enrollment fare better than AP students who scored a 1 on the exam and students who took neither AP nor dual enrollment, they are still much less likely to complete a bachelor’s degree in 4-years than most AP students.
Source: Linda Hargrove, Donn Godin, and Barbara Dodd, “College Outcomes Comparisons by AP and Non-AP High School Experiences,” New York: The College Board, 2008.

9. What You Can Do to Promote College Readiness
Discuss college and work place readiness with 6th grade students.
Share statistics about college success with students.
Stress the preparation for rigorous high school courses early in 8th and 9th grades.
Encourage and support low-income and minority students.
Teach parents about being “college ready.”
Be positive and promote student success.

10. students experiencing success in college.
“AP is not for the elite, it is for the prepared.” –Terry Grier, former superintendent Guilford County Schools
Recent research shows that participation in high quality curricula, held true and consistent by a universal, external assessment such as the AP® Exam, dramatically boosts the likelihood of traditionally underserved
students experiencing success in college.

11. Contact Information: Mark Klimesh Director of Advanced Placement Teaching + Learning (773)

12. Thank you

13. After creating matched groups of students, the students who took AP courses and exams achieve significantly higher rates of on-time bachelor’s degree completion.
Source: Linda Hargrove, Donn Godin, and Barbara Dodd, “College Outcomes Comparisons by AP and Non-AP High School Experiences,” New York: The College Board, 2008.