High school and college are totally different things, and one of the (many) great disservices we have done students in this country is to flood high schools with AP & DE courses that suggest otherwise
Reposted from
Jacqueline Antonovich
If it comes up, I also tell students that every semester, a student in my class tells me: "I didn't like history in high school, so I thought I wasn't going to like this class, but I LOVE it." You can't necessarily gauge your interest in a class based on your high school experiences.
Comments
Call them prompts or guidelines now.
I have had students complain about their grade because of the “lack of rubric.”
If you even knew how much scaffolding I do compared to my colleagues!
It’s really depressing when you realize the implication of that massive divide.
I get there are outliers, but the general obsession with "acceleration" is so nonsensical to me.
Kids will take the Accuplacer like five times so they can place into DE ENG101, and I feel like... maybe they could use English 4 first?
The issue is that kids who would benefit from another year or two of a full high school schedule will squeak out the minimum score then get Cs or worse in college classes at 15yo.
You don't need a Dean to do that. What used to be entry level work for an administrator has now been elevated to graduate or even PhD level roles, along with the inflated salaries. Schools now have far more admin than profs.
And many, many “selective” colleges expect AP as part of the transcript.
Why would you push them to waste money and time retaking courses they already passed?
Outside of upper level Mideast studies classes I did no AP Exam style writing in college. And that was 15 years ago.
Usually it's only true if context is removed.
College Board has its problems. But without context & data it's hard to tell if this is one of them.
What sections does "wrong history + correct format = 5" apply to?
I didn't find a difference between my high school AP and my university Gen Ed course. My high school classes were probably better educational environments than my college ones due to class size.
She spent a lot of time her first year of sleep away college helping her “took AP” friends pass calculus.