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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Published in:The Rural Educator
Main Authors: Barbour, Michael, Mulcahy, Dennis
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: National Rural Education Association 2006
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Online Access:https://journals.library.msstate.edu/index.php/ruraled/article/view/489
https://doi.org/10.35608/ruraled.v27i3.489
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Summary: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.