Resource #6: AP German
Site Name: College Board German AP course and AP test samples
URL: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_germanlang.html?germanlang
Owner: College Board, a not-for-profit membership organization committed to excellence and equity in education. Their mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900.
Type of Resource: Information on Advanced Placement German class syllabus, test samples for students, as well as links for teaching/learning AP German.
Description: This site gives a lot of information on AP German, both in what should be taught during AP German, how to prepare students for the test, as well as many samples of past tests.
Uses: I have found a sample of the past 10 years of AP German test. I also found example of 4 syllabi, of teachers teaching AP German. Next year, the AP test will be structured differently, so this site will become very important in preparing students for their test.
Usefulness: This resource can be used by teachers wanting to set up a new AP class, as I did last year. It can also be used as a source of test to prepare students.
Quality: The quality of this website is excellent.
Authorship: College board. They also create the SAT, SAT subject tests, PSAT,... Gaston Caperton is president of College Board.
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources: When doing college searches, college websites are linked to the search.
Verifiability: New York Times articles about College Board: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/college_board/index.htmlCritic of College Board (but this is mostly about SAT test): http://www.fairtest.org/college-admissions-testing-real-beneficiaries or http://www.fairtest.org/no-pay-performance-testing-companieshttp://www.aetr.org/college-board.php
Currency: 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 3 accessibility errors.
URL: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_germanlang.html?germanlang
Owner: College Board, a not-for-profit membership organization committed to excellence and equity in education. Their mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900.
Type of Resource: Information on Advanced Placement German class syllabus, test samples for students, as well as links for teaching/learning AP German.
Description: This site gives a lot of information on AP German, both in what should be taught during AP German, how to prepare students for the test, as well as many samples of past tests.
Uses: I have found a sample of the past 10 years of AP German test. I also found example of 4 syllabi, of teachers teaching AP German. Next year, the AP test will be structured differently, so this site will become very important in preparing students for their test.
Usefulness: This resource can be used by teachers wanting to set up a new AP class, as I did last year. It can also be used as a source of test to prepare students.
Quality: The quality of this website is excellent.
Authorship: College board. They also create the SAT, SAT subject tests, PSAT,... Gaston Caperton is president of College Board.
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources: When doing college searches, college websites are linked to the search.
Verifiability: New York Times articles about College Board: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/college_board/index.htmlCritic of College Board (but this is mostly about SAT test): http://www.fairtest.org/college-admissions-testing-real-beneficiaries or http://www.fairtest.org/no-pay-performance-testing-companieshttp://www.aetr.org/college-board.php
Currency: 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 3 accessibility errors.