![]() And with Advanced Placement offering the prospect of college credit, there’s a temptation to find an unfair edge. But the more weight students have riding on an exam score, the greater the incentive to cheat. The overwhelming majority of test-takers, online or in person, are honest. We took on additional burdens-accommodating a wide array of devices and file formats, designing questions that worked on mobile devices as well as desktop computers-to maximize access. One of our most important aims was ensuring the broadest possible access to the exams. Flexibility or simplicity? Security or ease of use? Every decision is a balance between competing values, and you need a clear sense of priorities to help guide all of those decisions. ![]() Here are a few of the things we learned that might help policymakers as they prepare for another academic year with pandemic disruptions. Building an at-home test took an all-out effort, with only six weeks to prepare an exam that students could access under wildly different circumstances, that colleges would stand behind, and that met the quality standards AP has built over decades. ![]() Millions of students invested extraordinary effort into their AP classes, and they wanted to finish what they started. So when schools across the country closed their doors in response to Covid-19, we faced a stark choice: Call off the exams for the year or find a way to deliver them online in about 3 million students’ homes around the globe.Ĭancelling would have been simpler, but also wrong. Students prepare all year to show their mastery in subjects from physics to music theory, with the chance to earn college credit with a solid exam score. AP exams have always been administered in schools with paper test booklets, then hand-graded at massive gatherings of teachers and college professors. For more than sixty years, Advanced Placement exams have been an “in person” affair.
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