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The College Board’s AP Capstone Program (consisting of AP Research and its prerequisite course, AP Seminar) was developed in response to an urgent need identified by the higher education community: students entering colleges and universities were not prepared with research and writing skills to succeed in college. Recognizing the ever-growing centrality of creative problem solving, innovation, and aesthetic discourse in multiple disciplines, this evidence-based program teaches high school juniors and seniors to explore creative and critical avenues of research in the arts among other domains, evaluate source material, synthesize information, undertake a research project with sustained focus over one year, and communicate and defend their work. This chapter describes a multi-method program evaluation, examining data from students, teachers, and school administrators.
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The following organizations have highlighted AP Capstone core academic skills as necessary for college, career, and life readiness: The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), College Learning for the New Global Century, Essential Learning Outcomes, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), A Framework for 21st Century Learning, Association of College and Research Libraries, Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, Council of Writing Program Administrators, Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing.
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O’Neal, I.C., Magrogan, S., Overby, L., Taylor, G. (2018). AP Research and the Arts: Evaluating a New Approach to College Preparation. In: Rajan, R., O'Neal, I. (eds) Arts Evaluation and Assessment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64116-4_8
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