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The Impact Of Participation In The Advanced Placement Program On Students’ College Admissions Test Scores, Russell Warne, Ross Larsen, Braydon Anderson, Alyce Odasso
The Impact Of Participation In The Advanced Placement Program On Students’ College Admissions Test Scores, Russell Warne, Ross Larsen, Braydon Anderson, Alyce Odasso
Russell T Warne
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is an educational program that permits high school students to take introductory college-level courses and receive college credit by passing a standardized end-of-course exam. Data were obtained from a statewide database of 2 high school graduating cohorts (N = 90,044). We used a series of propensity score analyses and marginal mean weighting through stratification to examine the impact of the AP program on students' academic achievement as measured by ACT scores. Results indicate that merely enrolling in an AP course produces very little benefit for students. Students who take and pass the AP exam, …