Report to the Nation New York - College Board · 2017. 4. 21. · STATE SUPPLEMENT FEBRUARY 11, 2014. 2 THE 10TH ANNUAL AP REPORT TO THE NATION NE YOR SUPPLEMENT ... Computer Science

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AP® Report to the NationSTATE SUPPLEMENT FEBRUARY 11, 2014

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T H E 1 0 T H A N N U A L A P R E P O R T T O T H E N A T I O N · N E W Y O R K S U P P L E M E N T

About This Report

This report provides educators and policymakers with information

they can use to celebrate their successes, understand their unique

challenges, and set meaningful goals to increase opportunity for all

students. It’s important to note that while AP® Exams are valid

measures of students’ content mastery of college-level studies in

specific academic disciplines, AP results should never be used as

the sole measure for gauging educational excellence and equity.

Because reliable demographic data for nonpublic schools are not

available for all states, this report represents public school students

only. Additionally, this report looks at students’ entire experience

with AP — tracking exams taken by graduates throughout their high

school careers — as opposed to reporting exam results from a

particular calendar year.

Additional data are available at apreport.collegeboard.org.

Table of Contents

3 State Strategies

7 Fostering AP® Participation and Success

9 A Closer Look at Equity Gaps in AP Participation and Success

Note: Throughout this report, public high school graduates represent projections supplied in Knocking at the College Door (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2012).

The redesigned courses, Biology, Latin, and Spanish Literature and Culture, began in fall 2012, and the first AP Exam based on those redesigned courses was administered in May 2013. As a result, the data in this report reflect a blend of the old and redesigned exam results.

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STATE STRATEG IESSTATE STRATEG IES

New York has made progress in recent years in improving student access and supporting student performance in AP®. Just as we do in the national report, we wanted to take an opportunity to applaud your efforts and offer additional strategies for your consideration.

Current Picture

Congratulations. You are already using these strategies to build a robust AP Program. You:

Include AP in the state accountability system. • Include AP in NYDOE Teacher/Principal Evaluations. • Establish AP participation and performance indicators; currently being set.

Celebrate the 27 districts that have earned a spot on the AP Honor Roll through their hard work and dedication to increasing participation and success in AP, particularly for underrepresented students. See page 6 for more details.

Encourage your educators to participate in the development of the AP Program, such as by becoming AP Readers or participating in course and exam development committees. See page 5 for more details.

Continue to support the successful implementation of the Virtual Advanced Placement® program to ensure that all students participating in the program have access to AP courses and exams throughout New York State.

Enhance existing policies that allow AP course work and exam scores for sophomores and juniors to substitute for statewide graduation requirements and/or end-of-course assessments.

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The following strategies have been proven effective. To build an even stronger AP program, you could:

¨ Include AP in the state accountability system. • Establish AP participation and performance indicators. • Set clear, measurable statewide goals toward improvement.

¨ Ensure that public colleges and universities develop AP Exam credit and placement policies based on institutional goals, alignment with corresponding courses, and objective outcomes research.

¨ Create opportunities for other schools and districts to learn from your AP Honor Roll winners.

¨ Provide targeted assistance and resources to schools serving traditionally underserved populations: for example, funding for materials, supplies, outreach efforts, and tutoring programs.

¨ Communicate how AP fits into state graduation requirements, and share information about funding opportunities that enable students to participate and succeed in AP.

¨ Provide resources to schools and districts to support research-based programs that build content knowledge and skills — particularly in literacy and math — to prepare students for success in AP course work, and in college and careers.

Opportunities

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The following information dives a little deeper into the details of your efforts.

Participation in the Development of AP

2013 Reading participants — Total: 467 New York represents 4.1% of all Readers • AP High School Teachers: 185 • College and University Faculty: 282

2013 AP Professional Development Leaders — Total: 68

2013 AP Development Committee Members — Total: 3

Comparative Government and Politics Brooklyn College Studio Art Clarkstown South High SchoolJapanese Language and Culture Columbia UniversityMusic Theory Eastman School of MusicWorld History Friends SeminaryChinese Language and Culture Hamilton CollegeMacroeconomics Irondequoit High SchoolPsychology Ithaca CollegeChinese Language and Culture Lower East Side Prep High SchoolPhysics C Manhattan Center for Science and MathComputer Science A Rochester Institute of Technology Calculus Scarsdale High School English Literature and Composition State University of New York - Binghamton Art History Tappan Zee High SchoolEuropean History United States Military AcademyEuropean History University of RochesterLatin University of Rochester

Highlights

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The AP Honor Roll

The AP Honor Roll recognizes and honors those outstanding school districts that simultaneously increase access to Advanced Placement course work while increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP Exams. Achieving both of these goals is the ideal scenario for a district’s AP program because it indicates that the district is successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are likely to benefit most from rigorous AP course work.

4th Annual Honor Roll Districts in New York: 27

Bedford Central School DistrictBlind Brook-Rye Union Free DistrictCity School District of AlbanyClarkstown Central School DistrictFarmingdale Union Free School DistrictHaldane Central School DistrictHalf Hollow Hills School District*Hempstead Union Free School District*Hoosick Falls Central School DistrictHuntington Union Free School DistrictJamesville-DeWitt Central School DistrictLancaster Central School DistrictManhasset Union Free School District*Marlboro Central School District*North Rockland Central School DistrictOneonta City School DistrictOrchard Park Central School DistrictPalmyra-Macedon Central School DistrictPelham Union Free School District*Peru Central School DistrictPioneer Central School DistrictSchalmont Central School DistrictSewanhaka Central High School District*Victor Central School DistrictWarwick Valley Central School District*West Islip Public Schools*Whitesboro Central School District

Highlights (continued)

* District has achieved the honor for multiple years.

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FOSTER ING AP PART IC IPAT ION AND SUCCESS

More graduatesare succeeding on AP Exams today than took them in 2003

History and Social Scienceshad the greatest number of graduates achieving a score of 3 or higher

F I G U R E 1 Growth in AP® Participation and Success

F I G U R E 2 Participation in and Success on AP Exams in the Class of 2013

Number of graduates leaving high school having taken an AP Exam Number of graduates scoring 3+ on an AP Exam during high school

2003 2008 2012 2013

57,334 44,095 64,946 67,034

37,788 29,479 42,627 44,909

60%30%0%

Percentage of New York Graduating Class

Arts

English

WorldLanguages

Mathematics andComputer Science

Sciences

History andSocial Sciences

AnyDiscipline

Total Number of Graduates: 176,819

2.7%

17.3%

24.7%

13.5%

15.8%

5.7%

37.9%

2.0%

10.9%

15.9%

9.1%

10.3%

4.1%

25.4%

60%30%0%

Percentage of graduates leaving high school having taken an AP Exam Percentage of graduates scoring 3+ on an AP Exam during high school

Art History, Music Theory, Studio Art: Drawing, Studio Art: 2-D Design, and Studio Art: 3-D Design

English Language and Composition, and English Literature and Composition

Comparative Government and Politics, European History, Human Geography, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Psychology, United States Government and Politics, United States History, and World History

Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Computer Science A, and Statistics

Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics B, Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, and Physics C: Mechanics

Chinese Language and Culture, French Language and Culture, German Language and Culture, Italian Language and Culture*, Japanese Language and Culture, Latin, Spanish Language, and Spanish Literature and Culture

*AP Italian Language and Culture was discontinued after the 2008-09 school year, and was reinstated in 2011-12.

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FOSTER ING AP PART IC IPAT ION AND SUCCESS

Rank

100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Subject No. of Exams % of Exam Scores+

+ Due to rounding, percentages do not always add up to 100.0.* AP Italian Language and Culture was discontinued after the 2008-09 school year, and was reinstated in 2011-12.

F I G U R E 3 Score Distributions of AP Exams Taken by the Class of 2013 During High School

Chinese Language and Culture 923

Japanese Language and Culture 86

Studio Art: Drawing 1,240

Studio Art: 2-D Design 1,539

Physics C: Mechanics 2,029

Calculus BC 5,195

German Language and Culture 158

French Language and Culture 1,199

9 Physics B 7,669

Spanish Language 6,558

Music Theory 1,279

3 English Language and Composition 20,087

Microeconomics 3,264

Spanish Literature and Culture 882

8 Psychology 8,837

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism 1,110

10 Chemistry 7,302

Computer Science A 1,594

4 Calculus AB 14,541

Comparative Government and Politics 946

European History 6,543

1 United States History 29,072

6 Biology 14,232

5 World History 14,291

Macroeconomics 6,739

Italian Language and Culture* 601

Human Geography 1,419

Latin 322

Statistics 6,997

2 English Literature and Composition 21,258

7 United States Government and Politics 12,334

Environmental Science 5,802

Studio Art: 3-D Design 207

Art History 851

6.9

37.2

44.4

31.3

20.3

16.6

33.5

37.4

30.0

21.3

27.4

31.6

20.7

37.1

19.4

15.9

21.7

14.1

18.6

19.5

35.6

23.8

28.3

29.0

19.1

33.8

24.0

32.3

24.9

32.1

28.5

18.3

31.9

26.6

12.0

14.0

21.5

32.7

29.2

16.3

23.4

24.4

23.7

26.2

19.6

24.2

29.0

23.7

27.1

23.4

24.3

26.0

20.6

25.7

20.0

26.4

21.3

22.3

27.3

21.6

24.6

17.1

22.4

18.5

15.5

27.2

17.9

16.9

78.3

37.2

18.2

19.0

32.8

49.2

19.6

12.8

19.5

22.5

22.5

13.2

18.4

7.1

21.2

28.1

21.1

27.0

27.5

20.7

10.3

15.6

16.0

13.6

17.5

8.5

14.0

13.0

14.1

6.8

11.5

9.9

5.3

7.8

5.8

15.1

14.9

11.0

5.1

18.4

20.8

15.2

16.7

23.0

23.8

14.9

20.0

13.6

19.3

14.3

7.0

10.7

23.3

11.6

23.5

22.4

23.6

19.1

28.1

17.8

23.6

19.0

32.5

26.4

24.8

34.8

21.2

0.42.3

5.8

0.8

2.2

6.7

12.9

5.1

4.7

11.5

13.3

7.4

7.2

16.9

12.1

18.7

13.2

18.7

26.0

22.6

10.9

22.5

10.7

12.0

11.5

17.1

8.0

19.7

14.0

19.6

10.1

18.0

19.8

10.1

27.6

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A CLOSER LOOK AT EQUITY GAPS IN AP PART IC IPAT ION AND SUCCESS

Low Income

44,511AP Exams were taken by low-income graduates in the class of 2013

The percentage or number of ...

• K–12 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch*

• graduates leaving high school having taken an AP Exam who are from low-income backgrounds

• graduates scoring 3+ on an AP Exam during high school who are from low-income backgrounds

F I G U R E 4 Trends in AP Exam Participation and Success

2003 2005 2008 20122011 2013

PE

RC

EN

TA

GE

OF

SP

EC

IF

IC

PO

PU

LA

TI

ON

G R A D U A T I N G C L A S S

10%

20%

0%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

18.2%

44.1%

48.3%

15.7%

19.3%

22.7%24.6% 25.6%

12.3%14.6%

17.9%19.1%

20.3%

2003 2008 2012 2013

** ** ** **

6,928 11,094 15,962 17,192

3,635 5,533 8,161 9,133

*Estimates reflect the percentage of K – 12 public school students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics: 2008 (Table 42), 2009 (Table 42), 2010 (Table 44), 2011 (Table 45), and 2012 (Table 46)

** The numbers of students in the graduating classes who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch are not available.

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Black/African American

6,242black/African American graduates in the class of 2013 took an AP Exam during high school


• students in the graduating class

• graduates leaving high school having taken an AP Exam

• graduates scoring 3+ on an AP Exam during high school... who are black/African American


2003 2008 2012 2013

PE

RC

EN

TA

GE

OF

SP

EC

IF

IC

PO

PU

LA

TI

ON


10%

20%

0%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

14.2% 16.3%

17.4% 16.6%

6.5% 7.9% 9.1% 9.3%

3.2% 3.6% 4.8% 5.1%

2003 2008 2012 2013

20,399 28,814 31,595 29,279

2,856 4,557 5,880 6,242

952 1,374 2,063 2,296

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Hispanic/Latino

10,348Hispanic/Latino graduates in the class of 2013 took an AP Exam during high school




• graduates scoring 3+ on an AP Exam during high school... who are Hispanic/Latino


2003 2008 2012 2013

PE

RC

EN

TA

GE

OF

SP

EC

IF

IC

PO

PU

LA

TI

ON


10%

20%

0%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

10.9%

15.1%

18.3% 18.2%

9.6%

11.8% 13.9% 15.4%

9.9% 10.8% 12.1% 13.5%

2003 2008 2012 2013

15,693 26,698 33,248 32,093

4,241 6,782 9,034 10,348

2,923 4,064 5,168 6,053

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American Indian/ Alaska Native

250American Indian/Alaska Native graduates in the class of 2013 took an AP Exam during high school




• graduates scoring 3+ on an AP Exam during high school... who are American Indian/Alaska Native


2003 2008 2012 2013

PE

RC

EN

TA

GE

OF

SP

EC

IF

IC

PO

PU

LA

TI

ON


10%

20%

0%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4%0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4%0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3%

2003 2008 2012 2013

475 599 776 706

107 178 208 250

57 92 103 125

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Asian/Asian American/ Pacific Islander

9,336Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander graduates in the class of 2013 took an AP Exam during high school




• graduates scoring 3+ on an AP Exam during high school... who are Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander


2003 2008 2012 2013

PE

RC

EN

TA

GE

OF

SP

EC

IF

IC

PO

PU

LA

TI

ON


10%

20%

0%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

7.2% 7.8% 8.8% 9.4%

11.5% 12.1%

13.8% 13.9%12.5%

13.8% 15.9% 16.0%

2003 2008 2012 2013

10,404 13,720 15,918 16,647

5,090 6,946 8,941 9,336

3,695 5,217 6,764 7,182

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White

37,032white graduates in the class of 2013 took an AP Exam during high school




• graduates scoring 3+ on an AP Exam during high school... who are white


2003 2008 2012 2013

PE

RC

EN

TA

GE

OF

SP

EC

IF

IC

PO

PU

LA

TI

ON


10%

20%

0%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

67.3%

60.2%

54.4% 54.7%

65.2% 60.6%

56.0% 55.2%

67.8%

65.2%

61.3% 60.5%

2003 2008 2012 2013

96,847 106,219 98,750 96,761

28,758 34,768 36,394 37,032

19,995 24,649 26,119 27,177

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