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Payment Of Advanced Placement Exam Fees By Virginia Public School Divisions And Its Impact On Advanced Placement Enrollment And Scores, Mary Grupe Cirillo
Payment Of Advanced Placement Exam Fees By Virginia Public School Divisions And Its Impact On Advanced Placement Enrollment And Scores, Mary Grupe Cirillo
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The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of Virginia school divisions’ policy of paying the fee for students to take Advanced Placement exams on Advanced Placement course enrollment, the number of Advanced Placement exams taken by students, the average scores earned and the percent of students earning qualifying scores of 3, 4, or 5 on Advanced Placement exams. The hierarchical regression models utilized Advanced Placement scores and school demographic data provided by the Virginia Department of Education combined with survey data on Advanced Placement policies and the number years that exam fees had been paid collected from …