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How AP CS A matches college courses

Published: 06 March 2013 Publication History

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The Advanced Placement (AP) Program provides a framework for high school students to obtain college credit and/or placement for work done in high school. Toward this end, the College Board outlines course descriptions and organizes examinations in several dozen disciplines, including computer science. To meet its goals, each AP course must align with college courses, so students taking an AP course will master needed content Several approaches are used to monitor this connection between AP courses and college-level courses. This session will review these approaches, considering how the AP CS A course matches introductory college computer science courses.

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[1]
College Board. 2011. Advanced Placement Computer Science College Curriculum Study, June 2011.
[2]
College Board. 2010. The Computer Science A Course Description, http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap-computer-science-course-description.pdf
[3]
College Board. 2014 (forthcoming). The Computer Science A Course Description.
[4]
College Board. 2012. Computer Science College Comparability Study.
[5]
College Board. 2010. AP Computer Science Faculty Colloquium Results, December 10, 2008.

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SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2013
818 pages
ISBN:9781450318686
DOI:10.1145/2445196
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