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- ISSN: 0013-8274
- E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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Recomposing the AP English Exam
- Source: English Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Sep 2001, p. 51 - 56
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- 01 Sep 2001
Abstract
The Advanced Placement Program (APP) presents a number of compelling assessment issues. Providing a history and critique of the program,Jones notes that the implications of the practices in the APP reveal much about English education and assessment in the last half-century.Reconfiguring the APP English exam to include portfolios, he continues, has the potential to improve writing instruction in all high school English classrooms.
© 2001 by the National Council of Teachers of English