Re:AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth
by InclinedPlane on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:23PM
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Indeed. A lot of education in the western world is remarkably shallow. Blitz through a lot of "material" and busy work, then cram so you can pass the test the next day, then forget everything. It's a horrible way to "learn" anything.
Re:AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth
by sliverstorm on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:34PM
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I found the issue was just building on my education. You could teach me concept X until you were blue in the face, and I wouldn't remember a whole lot a few months later. But give me a half-decent education on concept X and then soon after move to something that builds on concept X, and I will retain a far greater understanding of concept X for far longer.
I think it is related to a similar effect I have noticed- when I teach something, I again retain that information much better.
I was surprised at the number of fellow students at my University who openly admitted that within a month or two of the final exam, they couldn't recall much of anything about some of the courses in which they had scored an A or higher in.
It's entirely possible that the issue isn't the AP courses, but the significant delay taking (and doing well in the course) - and retesting again.
Alternatively - take a student from another Ivy League, Yale, Harvard - and see how they would do on a Dartmouth Final exam with some delay between taking the course and testing out again.