An Inquiry into Retention and Achievement Differences in Campus Based and Web Based AP Courses
A decade ago the Advanced Placement (AP) program was introduced into the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Initially, schools embraced this opportunity to provide their students with opportunities that were previously unavailable. However, within a few years the AP program was relegate...
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ftmississippistu:oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:ruraleducator-1278 2023-05-15T17:22:01+02:00 An Inquiry into Retention and Achievement Differences in Campus Based and Web Based AP Courses Barbour, Michael Mulcahy, Dennis 2006-07-15T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ruraleducator/vol27/iss3/2 https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1278&context=ruraleducator unknown Scholars Junction https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ruraleducator/vol27/iss3/2 https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1278&context=ruraleducator http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY The Rural Educator AP courses advanced placement retention achievement rural education rural schools Education text 2006 ftmississippistu 2022-04-25T17:25:40Z A decade ago the Advanced Placement (AP) program was introduced into the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Initially, schools embraced this opportunity to provide their students with opportunities that were previously unavailable. However, within a few years the AP program was relegated to urban and large regional high schools. Few smaller, and particularly rural schools, were able to offer AP courses only to the brightest one or two students taking it as an independent study. In 1997-98, schools began to delivery AP courses in a web-based method. The purpose of the study is to examine the retention rates and student achievement in AP courses in the province between different delivery models. Text Newfoundland Scholars Junction - Mississippi State University Institutional Repository Newfoundland |
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A decade ago the Advanced Placement (AP) program was introduced into the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Initially, schools embraced this opportunity to provide their students with opportunities that were previously unavailable. However, within a few years the AP program was relegated to urban and large regional high schools. Few smaller, and particularly rural schools, were able to offer AP courses only to the brightest one or two students taking it as an independent study. In 1997-98, schools began to delivery AP courses in a web-based method. The purpose of the study is to examine the retention rates and student achievement in AP courses in the province between different delivery models. |
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