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Giving College Credit Where it is Due: Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes / Jonathan Smith, Michael Hurwitz, Christopher Avery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Jonathan.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21147.
- NBER working paper series no. w21147
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Giving College Credit Where it is Due
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- We implement a regression discontinuity design using the continuous raw Advanced Placement (AP) exam scores, which are mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively impacts college completion and subsequent exam taking. Specifically, attaining credit-granting integer scores increases the probability that a student will receive a bachelor's degree within four years by 1 to 2 percentage points per exam. We also find that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams senior year.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2015.
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