Linda discussed problems with the formalizing of syllabi and texts to produce uniformity and limit freedom. I have been teaching AP Psychology since before there was an AP and, for the first time,we were required to submit syllabi last year in order to have our courses certified as AP. The goal was to ensure that AP courses meet acceptable standards so as to assure the colleges that students who score well on the exams deserve college credit. It is interesting, in light of the discussion, that there is no required text and we were all free to organize the course as we saw fit, as long as it was acceptable to the reviewers, who were college teachers of Intro. We had lots of detailed info about how to organize our submissions and three sample syllabi available for guidance. Once our syllabus was approved, we are expected to follow it in subsequent years, and if a new teacher is hired, that person is expected to follow the approved syllabus until their own is approved, but there is a fair amount of freedom in choice of topics and sequence and manner of presentation. In fact, the exam has always assumed that no teacher will cover every possible question on the exam because of the different texts and syllabi. There was a possibility of multiple reviews if the syllabus was not accepted at the first review, but 90+% of the Psychology syllabi were accepted on the first review, which is far better stats than any of the other subjects. For any of you would like to know what the AP course audit asked for, go to the AP Central website and click on course audit. Riki Koenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) .
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