March 30, 2007

Reliable Statistics on AP Tests

To the Editor:

Last year you contextualized your reporting of the Advanced Placement tests ("Advanced-Placement Test Scores Drop Slightly, Report Says," The Chronicle, February 17, 2006). As you noted, a "smaller proportion of test takers earned scores of 3 or higher" in 2005 than in 2000. ...

Beginning two years ago, the College Board, which oversees the AP program, changed its method of reporting test results. Instead of reporting passing statistics (scores of 3 and above) as

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