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This point is really bizarre: > The expectations at the college or university level seem to be falling. In other words, the AP course has actually adapted more
by fny 4y ago
This point is really bizarre:
> The expectations at the college or university level seem to be falling. In other words, the AP course has actually adapted more to changing and challenging economic conditions, particularly macroeconomic ones, than has the more stagnant college-level course.
How is it that a college has more stagnant material than a curriculum designed by a bureaucracy? This sounds like a Davidson problem.
- scruple 4y agoBecause the students taking an AP course are motivated to move beyond the 101 level before they even have the opportunity to take the 101 level course. 101 level courses are for people who can't otherwise move passed it through other means.
- colinmhayes 4y agoImo biggest issue is that professors are incentivized to research, not teach. 101 classes have a high percentage of non-major, disinterested students, so the good teachers don't want to teach them. So the combination of undergrads being an annoyance that must be dealt with in order to do the real job of research, and the teachers who actually take that annoyance seriously not teaching this class means 101 classes are commonly not updated and little work is put into them by the teachers. AP courses are designed by people whose job is designing courses, not people whose job is research and "oh yea teach these undergrads too."