High-SES graduates were more than three times as likely as low-SES graduates to take an AP course in 2003-04¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2009 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2014: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In 2003-04, 50.9 percent of high-SES graduates took an AP course versus 16.3 percent of low-SES graduates; 33 percent of white graduates took AP compared with 16 percent of African American graduates. → Melissa Roderick 2009

Evidence¶

Melissa Roderick 2009¶

Melissa Roderick, Jenny Nagaoka, and Vanessa Coca. (2009). College Readiness for All: The Challenge for Urban High Schools. The Future of Children. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/college-readiness-all-challenge-urban-high-schools doi:10.1353/foc.0.0024

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review reports national transcript-data gaps in access to college-preparatory coursework such as AP, citing the printed comparison of "50.9 percent versus 16.3 percent" for high- versus low-SES graduates. Descriptive percentages only; no effect size printed.

"In 2003–04, high school graduates of high socioeconomic status were more than three times more likely (50.9 percent versus 16.3 percent) to have taken an AP course than students of low socioeconomic status."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Socioeconomic Status — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Related Claims¶

• School test score averages are strongly related to the income of the families a school serves — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
• Senior-year advanced coursework is unevenly distributed by race/ethnicity among CPS graduates — related
• Graduates' academic qualifications improved alongside graduation rates, with ACT scores rising from 16.7 to 18.6 between 2003 and 2014 — related