Martin, I'm not sure what URL was missing. Here is a list of AP courses. https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse The program is not just for the US. Discussion of the current exam is banned until everyone has taken it and that covers many time zones outside the US. The curricula are created by expert teams in each field. If a high school teacher wants to offer an AP course they have to get their plan approved by AP. This is fairly recent and partly in response to schools putting the "AP" label on courses and transcripts to make their school look good even though said courses did not match AP standards. The 2016 exam just took place last week. It's (inter)national and students get a score of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. It is then entirely up to colleges whether to offer credit and what score will be required as well as what particular college course they get credit for. (It can happen that students get credit for no particular course, just elective credits toward graduation.) There are AP Stats. teachers using R though they are a small minority. I think some use R in one of the computer science courses. A major obstacle is that students are "expected" to bring a graphing calculator to the exam. That pretty much means students have to learn to do eveything with the calculators so using R would have to be in addition to using the calculators, not instead of them. There have been complains about that for years. Here is one from me published last year. http://chance.amstat.org/2015/11/college-to-pre-college/ ----- Forwarded message from Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> ----- Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 12:41:15 +0200 From: Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> To: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> Cc: User Hayden <bob at statland.org>, R-sig-teaching <r-sig-teaching at r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] Teaching R in high school and college science and math courses
I agree that R-SIG-Teaching is an appropriate place to keep this topic going. To us non-Americans, can you explain "AP Statistics" to us and possibly use URLs when you mention websites?
AP = advanced placement. It's an advanced high-school class that students can elect to take (typically in their final year) and that often counts for university credit (i.e. in many universities a good score in an AP class allows you to skip one of the intro level classes). Hadley -- http://hadley.nz ----- End forwarded message -----
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