Learning and Understanding:

Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools

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Size: 300 pages, 6x9

Publication Year:2002

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Committee on Programs for Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in American High Schools, National Research Council
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This book takes a fresh look at programs for advanced studies for high school students in the United States, with a particular focus on the Advanced Placement and the International Baccalaureate programs, and asks how advanced studies can be significantly ...
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Front Matter	i-xxiv
Executive Summary	1-16	(skim)
1. Introduction	17-27	(skim)
2. Context of Advanced Study	28-63	(skim)
3. The Advanced Placement Program	64-82	(skim)
4. The International Baccalaureate Programme	83-102	(skim)
5. Other Opportunities and Approaches to Advanced Study	103-116	(skim)
6. Learning With Understanding: Seven Principles	117-133	(skim)
7. Designing Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Professional Development	134-153	(skim)
8. Analysis of the AP and IB Programs Based on Learning Research	154-175	(skim)
9. Analysis of AP and IB Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Professional Development	176-184	(skim)
10. Uses, Misuses, and Unintended Consequences of AP and IB	185-196	(skim)
11. Recommendations	197-205	(skim)
References	206-228	(skim)
Appendix A: Overview of Panel Findings and Recommendations	229-252	(skim)
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	253-258	(skim)
Appendix C: Statement of Task	259-260	(skim)
Index	261-272	(skim)
Content Panel Report: Biology	273-338	(skim)
Content Panel Report: Chemistry	339-396	(skim)
Content Panel Report: Physics	397-490	(skim)
Content Panel Report: Mathematics	491-564	(skim)

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This book takes a fresh look at programs for advanced studies for high school students in the United States, with a particular focus on the Advanced Placement and the International Baccalaureate programs, and asks how advanced studies can be significantly improved in general. It also examines two of the core issues surrounding these programs: they can have a profound impact on other components of the education system and participation in the programs has become key to admission at selective institutions of higher education.

By looking at what could enhance the quality of high school advanced study programs as well as what precedes and comes after these programs, this report provides teachers, parents, curriculum developers, administrators, college science and mathematics faculty, and the educational research community with a detailed assessment that can be used to guide change within advanced study programs.