Can Advanced Placement Scores Still Be Trusted?

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This past week, several reports were distributed, describing how the College Board had begun a process of recalibrating (which they call validating) Advanced Placement (AP) scores. What does this mean for the test, the scores, and the students who will take it?

 The College Board, in their announcement about the recalibration process, noted that reducing the failure rate was the intention: “Among AP subjects that have had atypical success rates lower than 60%, the EBSS process justified increasing those success rates to align to the 60%–80% success rate historically achieved in most other AP subjects.”

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