Hello- Course coverage from the AP Biology web page: -Molecules and Cells, 25% -Heredity and Evolution, 25% -Organisms and Populations, 50% Generally, high school AP classes have more contact hours than the corresponding college-level course so I do not think that they would drop content, but that of course would be teacher/school-dependent.
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_bio.html Best, Tom On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Corbin, Jeffrey D. <corb...@union.edu>wrote: > Hello Ecologgers - My department is trying to figure out how to best > assign credit to incoming students who get 4's and 5's on the AP Biology > exam. One proposal is to give them credit for the first class in our Intro > Bio sequence, which happens to be the one that presents ecology (along with > evolution and genetics). > > I suggested that this would be a mistake, as ecology is likely given short > shrift in many high school classes because it is at the end of all of the > textbooks. Quite reasonably, I've been challenged as to whether that is > really the case. > > Does anyone know of any comparison of the weight given to various biology > subjects (e.g. ecology, physiology, cell, etc.) in high school classes and > the AP exam? I still have a suspicion that ecology is the most likely to be > rushed or dropped, but maybe that's just because it is what happened when I > took it. In any case, I'd be on firmer ground if I had even one piece of > evidence to back it up! > > Thanks! > > -Jeff > > *************************** > Jeffrey D. Corbin > Department of Biological Sciences > Union College > Schenectady, NY 12308 > (518) 388-6097 > *************************** >
