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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am doubting the statistic.  Maybe this is a national average, not an average at most schools, as the person wrote.

But I give Dartmouth HUGE credit for walking away from APs.  Those for-profit curricula are incredibly distorting, leading schools to force-feed material to students rather than challenging them with engaging material calling on higher level thinking.  Thats why schools are moving away from APs.[/quote]

I agree to a certain extent.

I do believe that AP's force a lot of the issues you described, however I believe what D should do is let whoever scored a 4 or 5 to take the mid term and final exams of the particular class they want credit for and if they score a B+ or higher to let them get placement and/or credit for the class. [/quote]

The problem is that Dartmouth didn't create the curriculum, the College Board did.  And it makes perfect sense to me that they wouldn't want to outsource their education to a corporation over which they have no control.[/quote]

NP here.  But in PP's scheme it doesn't matter. Dartmouth doesn't have to change their curriculum at all - they're merely giving students who already know the material (via AP in this case, but you could do it from self study too) a chance to test out of the Dartmouth classes using Dartmouth tests as a benchmark.

Really there should me a mechanism like this for all sorts of pre-req type classes.  If a class is teaching a specific, basic skill (a language or math), then it benefits no one for students who already know the material to have to retake it.  Let them test out so that they can take more advanced material/other subjects, and so the class can be truly geared towards students who don't yet know/understand the material.[/quote]

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