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It argues that such incentives benefit testing and institutional revenue while students receive inadequate preparation for genuine college-level writing tasks. 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It's here; it's AP.” –Eric Rothschild (\"AP Central: The Origins\")  \n“The easiest way to make a test ‘reliable' is to make it crude. Instead of having students write a genuine essay, assign a 20-minute ‘free response.' Instead of posing a genuine problem, ask a stupid question on a trivial topic. Instead of having graders make careful judgments, instruct them merely to skim.” –David Owen, None of the  \nAbove: The Truth behind the SATs (39)  \nThese prefatory quotes accurately describe what has become two divergent schools of thought concerning the merits of the Advanced Placement (AP) program and its benefits for incoming college freshmen. Having celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2005, the AP program has received quite a bit of attention in the past few years due mainly to its exponential growth in popularity. While much of this attention has been positive, as the Rothschild quote attests, a significant amount of criticism has attacked the assumptions of the AP program (Owen being one of them), aligning it with all other standardized tests. These critics claim that the program cares more for their profits than the (writing) process, implying that test scores outweigh student learning. The AP program—which consists of both a course and culminating standardized exam—emphasizes test scores over everything else to the extent that student learning and development of writing skills are reduced in value, thus reducing a college education to a single test score. The implications of this devaluing of higher education  \nshould both frighten as well as motivate those in the field of rhetoric and composition, as well as scholars in other academic disciplines.  \nThe AP program, a high school course in which motivated students can work at the college level and receive credit for their efforts, has steadily increased in popularity since its inception in the 1950s. In 2005, 2.1 million students worldwide took an AP test (\"AP Central: The Advanced\") . This year, almost 90 percent of colleges and universities from all over the United States granted between 3 and 12 semester credits to incoming freshmen, based solely on qualified AP exam scores (\"AP Central: The Advanced\") . The prospect of receiving college credit for a small fee is the prime reason the AP program has gained in popularity. With college tuition increasing every year and job prospects decreasing in almost every field, parents and their students want to find a cheaper, easier shortcut to a college degree. To many families, AP is the answer to get their son or daughter ahead.  \nBut as David Foster challenges, is the AP program an advantage for students? It benefits the Educational Testing Service (ETS), making it millions of dollars each year. It benefits universities, allowing them to give away the equivalent of scholarships without spending a dime. It benefits parents, allowing their son or daughter to receive free college credit, shortening their time to a diploma. But what about student learning? What kind of skills are learned in a course that prepares students to take a test, and are those skills representative of those taught in a real college course? Joining in the debate with Foster and other critics of AP, I believe that these programs end up being detrimental to a student's education, as the program and exam do not accurately train and measure student writing ability, leaving students unprepared for college-level writing. Furthermore, the practice of testing out of first-year writing programs perpetuates the myth that these courses inculcate “basic skills” and should be skipped over by bright, self-motivated AP students, stereotyping these introductory writing courses as unimportant an","cbCaiiN16O9sW9jW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiN16O9sW9jW","pdf",46916,"English","# The AP Forum Context\n## Profits Over Process: AP English and Writing Instruction\n## AP Program Growth and Credit Outcomes\n## Arguments in Favor and Criticisms\n## Adulations and Criticisms of Advanced Placement","[{\"question\":\"What main problem does the essay identify with the AP program?\",\"answer\":\"The essay argues that AP emphasizes test performance over the writing process, reducing the value of learning and development of writing skills.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay describe the benefits of AP for different stakeholders?\",\"answer\":\"It says AP benefits the Educational Testing Service and universities financially and programmatically, and benefits parents and students through credit and reduced time to a diploma.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the essay’s critics claim about AP English and writing assessment?\",\"answer\":\"Critics contend that the exam does not accurately train or measure real writing ability, and that testing out of writing programs perpetuates the idea that introductory writing is basic and skippable.\"}]","PROFITS OVER PROCESS: AP ENGLISH AND THE DECLINE OF WRITING INSTRUCTION | PDF",1792085739,23]