AP COURSE AUDIT

CEPR/EPIC are conducting the audit of all Advanced Placement^® (AP^®) courses in the nation on behalf of the College Board. This project began in January 2007 and involves collecting course audit forms and syllabi for over 100,000 AP courses, reviewing them, and identifying all courses that clearly demonstrate key curricular and resource requirements identified by the AP program. The project reflects CEPR/EPIC’s recognized role as a national leader in content validity and online analysis studies and methodologies in the area of high school-to-college articulation.

The AP Course Audit was designed to provide high schools with a set of criteria that, if followed within a course, would enable the College Board to recommend the course as "AP" to colleges and universities. Each fall, beginning in November 2007, colleges and universities will receive a ledger of schools that lists the courses authorized to use the "AP" designation at each school. Two goals of the study are to:

• Provide teachers and administrators with clear guidelines on curricular and resource requirements that must be in place for AP courses.
• Help colleges and universities better interpret secondary school courses marked "AP" on students' transcripts.

For more information, please visit the College Board's AP Course Audit website at AP Central or contact Kirsten Aspengren at kirsten_aspengren@epiconline.org.