AP Classes Face Audit

Amy Hetzner:

What's bad, according to Roby Blust, Marquette's dean of undergraduate admissions, is that some of those courses labeled as AP aren't really Advanced Placement courses, as trademarked by the College Board.

"They're not going through what we know is the AP curriculum for English, but they're listing it as an AP course," Blust said. "So they're mislabeling, I guess."

That could be about to change.

Pressured by colleges and universities with similar stories, the College Board is launching its first major oversight effort of the popular courses this year. By fall, the organization responsible for the AP program and its associated tests expects to have reviewed detailed descriptions of what's being taught in about 120,000 courses throughout the world bearing the AP label.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 26, 2007 6:13 AM
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