We had some good discussions, of which some was about Advanced Placement business courses. I looked into AP Accounting about 2 years ago and at that time there was not a national AP Accounting test for students to take for a score. The reason you would want the national test is so students could possibly test out of college level courses.
As we are reviewing our states and/or having conversations with other states and AP comes up, I would be curious to know if there has been any national tests developed in the business area, such as Accounting?
Another question that came to my mind after our discussions Feb 15th is when we mentioned offering CTE courses as core courses, such as Accounting for math credit towards high school graduation requirement, another scenerio would be Biology for high school science credit. My question is, if that student would go to a four year college, would a college view that credit differently? A lot of my CTE students do go on to four year colleges, so that is why I am wandering about this?
These are just some questons that come to my mind, guessing lots of different answers!
Kyle
Kyle,
ReplyDeleteMy principal told me that we could offer Accounting as a math credit at the high school, but colleges would not accept it as a math credit.
Tim
I see at NBEA there is a session or all day workshop about developing an Accounting AP Exam so then would have creditibility in offering AP Accounting. Is anyone planning on attending NBEA? If so, anyone planning on going to this workshop?
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