Wwc Quick Review Paper

What Works Clearinghouse. (2009, April). WWC quick review of the report “college outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences.”

The study was meant to prove whether taking Advanced Placement Courses as well as AP exams in high school, would improve college performance.This was tested on students who graduated from a texas public high school during 1998 and 2002 and then attended a Texas public college. Data was collected from high school students who took AP classes and Ap exams. In order for there to be something to compare, there was also data collected from those who took either the course and not the exam, none at all, or the exam and not the course. The college students’ grade point average, earned credits, and graduation rates were then drawn from a statewide database. The results showed that those who took the Ap course and AP exam in high school, did indeed have higher college …show more content…
They were compared to those who only either took the AP course or the AP exam. They were also compared to those who taken neither the course and/or the exam but had taken an non-AP course either for college credit or not, but in the same subject. These groups of students were compared in hopes of showing correlation between more AP course or AP exam experience to a greater college performance. In the a article of the WWC, it stated that there was a correlation between the two, “The study reported that students who took both the AP course and the AP exam had greater college GPAs, earned more credits, and had higher graduation rates than students who took only the AP course or a non-AP course in the same subject area.” Therefore, if the comparisons of High School students with different High School course experiences had affected their college performance. , there would be a correlation to those who had