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AP Research Technical Manual

The AP Research Technical Manual provides an in-depth look at many areas of the AP Program including committee and job descriptions, the Program's history, exam and course development, the grading system, and much more.

You can browse, chapter by chapter, through the Technical Manual. The main Technical Manual chapters are listed in the "More" box on each page of the manual; subchapters are only listed within their chapters. The Technical Manual chapters and subchapters are:

  • Committee and Job Descriptions
  • The History of the AP Program
  • Course and Exam Development
    • Course Descriptions and Released Exam Questions
    • Development of AP Courses
    • Development of AP Exams
    • Scoring of AP Exams: The Reading
  • Exam Scoring
    • AP Grade Distributions
    • Statistical Information Based on Common Items
    • College Comparability Studies
  • Exam Analysis
  • Exam Validation
    • Research Papers on the Achievement of AP and Non-AP Students
  • Technical Manual Bibliography
     
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