1. Advanced Placement Statistics--Past, Present, and Future.
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Roberts, Rosemary and Scheaffer, Richard
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COLLEGE placement services ,STATISTICS ,HIGHER education - Abstract
The Advanced Placement Statistics course, first offered in 1997 after more than 12 years of planning, allows high school students who pass an examination to receive college credit for a statistics course taken at their high school. In its third year 25,240 students took this examination, and 57% "passed." The three-hour exam consists of both multiple choice and free response questions, which cover the four sections of the AP Statistics syllabus: data exploration, study design, probability distributions through simulation, and inference. Although some problems remain, both students and teachers find the course to be challenging and valuable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
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