High school students in Advanced Placement classes study hard for long and challenging AP exams given the first two weeks in May. Before the students get their grades, however, thousands of teachers ...

Millions of high school students take Advanced Placement examinations each year. I have been grading the free-response questions on the AP Psychology exam for more than a decade. Over the years, I ...

POWAY —— Grading in advanced placement courses at Westview HighSchool will change, putting more emphasis on classroom work andless on the final exam, school officials said. A districtwide grading ...

Erich Martel suspected something was wrong because nobody was telling him anything. But it was not until Aug. 17, less than two weeks before school started, that he learned he would not be teaching ...

I was saddened to hear of Daniel Doyle’s embittering stint as an AP World History exam reader at Colorado State University (The Chronicle, Letters, August 7). I assume that it was his first and last ...

Want your grade in an Advanced Placement class to count on a 5.0 scale, instead of 4.0? At Helix Charter High School, it’ll cost you. The school only grants the “weighted” grade-point scale to ...

Domenic Martelli, Avon Grove High School Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher, was selected by the College Board to serve as a table leader during grading of the 2008 AP U.S. history exams.